Ratatatatat Quotes & Sayings

Purpose is the most important thing worth living for — Sunday Adelaja

People talk about fight or flight? That's nonsense. It's fight and flight. — Amanda Bouchet

I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that. — Denise Mina

It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday. — Leopold Infeld

Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed. — Sathya Sai Baba

I'm a very vicious critic of myself. — Dave Matthews

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way. — Yoko Ono

History is guided by leaders in turn affected by the sentiments of their population. Such sentiments are cyclical, allowing for predictions of a nation's fall. — Will Slatyer

The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated. — Stanley Hauerwas

The cow to me is a sermon on pity. — Mahatma Gandhi

The throne of God in the world is not on human thrones, but in human depths, in the manger. Standing around his throne there are no flattering vassals but dark, unknown, questionable figures who cannot get their fill of this miracle and want to live entirely by the mercy of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. For that reason, if the signs are not pretty strong in a particular direction, it must be some dark stranger, some wanderer from the outside world where such things happen. — John Steinbeck

All too easily, however, we can become distracted, scared, frustrated, gullible, cynical, or just plain inattentive. We suppress our natural questing spirit. We plow ahead without taking a good, hard look at what we're doing and why. And whether we realize it or not, we buy into ready made systems of thought, habit, and belief sold to us by our culture, families, friends, and associates. We fall into step with the herd and almost unthinkingly adhere to whatever cult(ure) we're brought up in, unconsciously living our received beliefs and assumptions, for the most part without question or examination. — Lama Surya Das

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster

No one knows what to do with you, girlie. — Suzanne Collins