Rateness Quotes & Sayings

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive. — Sandra Bernhard

Which is the more useful, the scientific world-view, with all its wonderful technical miracles, or the religious world-view, with its sense of purpose and belonging? — Chris Beckett

Lilith chuckled, fondly remembering the bitter and heated arguments when the other princes had first confronted Orcus. Those had been the days! She had to admit, completely obliterating one's enemy was not as satisfying as one might think. It rather left a void in one's daily life. Her current enemies were so much less interesting. — J.L. Langland

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. — Graham Greene

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. — Timothy Keller

If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do. — Derek Jacobi

The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ... — Hermann Hesse

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know. — George Bernard Shaw

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived. — Sam Shepard