Rassera Quotes & Sayings

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. — Frank Pittman

It is when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — H.G.Wells

Bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell. — Raegan Butcher

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone — Eric Rucker Eddison

When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology. — S. Bear Bergman

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. — Nina Easton

And if we all did what we should, we would wake to find ourselves in paradise — Deborah Harkness

Most people's lives - what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death. — Tennessee Williams

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent. — Benjamin Franklin

Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing. — Barry Ritholtz

There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress:
Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Owen did not understand "beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" to be either an esoteric subject or something only for certain highly spiritual kinds of people. With great force he argued that no one "will ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who doth not in some measure behold it by faith here in this world."287 This raises the stakes on prayer and meditation to high levels. Owen held that, unless you learn how to behold the glory of Christ, you are not actually living a truly Christian life in this world. — Timothy Keller

God, by definition, is maximally competent. God, by definition, is maximally efficient. There are no mistakes. There can be no mistakes, no missteps, no lapses or miscalculations. What exists, exists because it was arranged for by the Catalogue of Catalogues that is the mind of God. Evil exists because it is meant to exist, and to even suggest it is the result of some personal ineptitude or imbecilic blunder in the design is athletically - historically - preposterous. — John Zande

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin