Raree Quotes & Sayings

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering. — Stephen Richards

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act. — Dane Cook

Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation. — Ludwig Von Mises

I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration ... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people. — Charles Barkley

A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him. — Ford Madox Ford

It dosn't metter how meny type of products. Sale of product is always SAME. — Sushil Singh

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair. — Judd Apatow

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter. — Max Beerbohm

Frequently I remember something H. Richard Niebuhr wrote after having spent a number years trying to formulate a comprehensive perspective on faith. He likens faith to a cube. From any one angle of vision, he points out, the observer can see and describe at least three sides of the cube. But the cube has back sides, a bottom and insides as well. Several angles of vision have to be coordinated simultaneously to do any real justice in a characterization of faith — James W. Fowler

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small — Marcus Aurelius

even if a gentleman should lose his whole substance, he must never give way to annoyance. Money must be so subservient to gentility as never to be worth a thought. Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob (for preference, through a lorgnette), even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion. Though — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us. — Auliq Ice

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas. — William Hazlitt

You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you. — Melissa De Sousa

Julie gave me a look generally reserved for naughty children and husbands justifying their recent electronics purchase. — Katherine Bayless

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. — Hussein Chalayan

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. — Timothy Keller

Yes; even if a gentleman should lose his whole substance, he must never give way to annoyance. Money must be so subservient to gentility as never to be worth a thought. Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob (for preference, through a lorgnette), even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky