Ranou Pate Quotes & Sayings

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense. — Gloria Steinem

A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically - it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so! — Joseph Goebbels

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.
Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence. — Anna Kavan

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion. — Seth Godin

[The Bible] has survived attack of every kind. Neither barbaric vandalism nor civilized scholarship has touched it. Neither the burning of fire nor the laughter of skepticism has accomplished its annihilation. Through the many dark ages of man, its glorious promises have survived unchanged. — Billy Graham

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered. — Anna Sui

He had probably never thought about the difference between hard work and manual labour, either. — Haruki Murakami

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. — Louis Farrakhan

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace. — Tacitus

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. — William Whipple

Stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries - everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life. — Gary Shteyngart

Some things are out of your control, but not your breath, so breathe in with me, okay? — R.S. Grey

I think the gap between Israelis and Palestinians is too deep to be bridged in our generation. Politically, we are in favor of a regional solution. A part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be annexed by Israel, and the other parts should be incorporated in a confederation with Jordan. — Ayelet Shaked

The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse. — Wael Ghonim