Rapportid Quotes & Sayings

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. — Tacitus

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. — Sam Harris

It's as if everything shifts around me, the pieces that didn't fit together finally twisting until they match. The terror that had been clouding and suffocating me begins to filter away, dissipating in the night. "I want something more too," I whisper. "I want more than looking back and wishing for what was or what could have been. Who I was or could have been. I want ... " I lick my lips, tasting him. "I want you. — Carrie Ryan

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself. — Sakyong Mipham

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen. — Aaron Neville

Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend. — Karen Blixen

Privileges of age, size, and ass-kissing. If you survive this conversation, you'll find that it's just the same in most of the big gangs. — Scott Lynch

But
You
Don't
Know
What
It's
Like. — Pierce The Veil

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia. — Juan Manuel Santos

There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that. — Sophia Amoruso

A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live. — Martin Luther King Jr.

'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is another name of Shiva, one of the holy trinity god that we worship. — Ravi Shankar