Rakestraw Quotes & Sayings

Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect. — Deyth Banger

And it's also not your business, Mr. Rakestraw said easily. — Nick Wilgus

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking. — Kazuo Ishiguro

If you want more opportunities you have to become an opportunity for others. As you advance yourself your opportunities advance too. — Bryant McGill

I believe if we love something and have fun, we tend to self teach and learn at a rapid rate. I also consider confusion a starting state for learning. It opens us to new patterns emerging. — Todd Rice

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. — Eileen Myles

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. — Billy Sunday

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Prayer isn't just the way we cultivate our own potential; prayer is the way we recognize potential in others. Like Paul, who saw gifts in Timothy that Timothy couldn't see in himself, we, through prayer, are enabled to see with prophetic eyes. We are given supernatural insight. Then we are prepared to speak with prophetic boldness into the lives God has positioned in our path. — Mark Batterson

Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn ... But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don't you dare do it until then. — Lyle Alzado

PAUL RAKESTRAW, I SAID GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! — Nick Wilgus