Rapis Quotes & Sayings

So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace. — Sogyal Rinpoche

It's amazing that the city we live in allows "pets" that belong in a sideshow, but makes it illegal for me to have a switchblade. — Helen Ellis

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it. — Terry Pratchett

There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real. — Elizabeth Brundage

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways. — William Hardy McNeill

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

It is our view," said Slant, turning his chair slightly so that he did not have to look at Vimes, "that the new land is ours by Eminent Domain, Extra-Territoriality and, most importantly, Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis. I am given to understand that it was one of our fishermen who first set foot on it this time. — Terry Pratchett

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. — George Bernard Shaw

Don't worry, though, he'll be as good as
new. Boys his age bounce. — Harper Lee

The daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself. — Louis Daguerre