Raitano Quotes & Sayings

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir was alive it was easy to veil the truth: that they were not a family-not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all. — Toni Morrison

My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them. — Jill Soloway

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. — George Orwell

Water drunk more reverently still, from the hands or from the spring itself, diffuses within us the most secret salt of earth and the rain of heaven. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I wanted to be taken out of myself. — Garry Disher

Oh, he was definitely doable. Did Hawaiians have the saying "Save a surfboard, ride a surfer"? — Gina L. Maxwell

When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful. — G. Willow Wilson

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world. — Ansel Elgort

Every time you speak to people, give them something to feel, something to remember, and something to do. — John C. Maxwell

A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. — A.W. Tozer