Raif Quotes & Sayings

Oh, yes. I've known kisses so narcotic they made my eyes roll back in my head. For a few weeks one winter I walked around feeling like I had a miniature sun in my heart. — Tim Kreider

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life — Bruno Dumont

FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the air that any thinker breathes; it's the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual's thoughts. — Raif Badawi

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear. — Salman Rushdie

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. — Brian Raif

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear. — Raif Badawi

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities. — Raif Badawi

Look at all the countries that are based on a religious ideology; look at their people and the generations born into it: What do they have to offer human civilization? — Raif Badawi

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time. — Clive James

It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it. — Raif Badawi

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad. — Stephen Chbosky

To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous. — Raif Badawi

Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments of history and logic, and to dumb down its citizens. It's important to stand in the way of such a mentality, to deny it from continuing its mission to murder the souls of its people, killing them deep within while they are still alive and breathing. — Raif Badawi

...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas. — Raif Badawi

We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services. — Richard Branson

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. — Gautama Buddha

Brennan didn't look exactly like Raif to Shayla's eyes, but for someone who didn't know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years. — Marjorie F. Baldwin

Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation. — Spencer W. Kimball

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag

Can't we just go in a dark corner like normal people who need to hide from highly trained evil killers?" she said.
"What, and let everyone imagine all the delightful things two jinn can do in the dark?"
"You're unbelievable."
"Thank you. — Heather Demetrios

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes. — John Catsimatidis

Raif spared me the embarrassment of making me wear one of his Lord of the Rings outfits. — Amanda Bonilla

For me, liberalism simply means, live and let live. This is a splendid slogan — Raif Badawi

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. — Sven Nykvist

Rising in Triumph, just like the phoenix — Loretta Livingstone