Rathjens Michael Quotes & Sayings

Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power. — Richard Salter Storrs

I can't imagine living the way he does - always keeping track of who gave me what and what I should give them in return, incapable of love or loyalty or forgiveness, a one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else's eye to poke out. That isn't life. It's some paler version of life. I wonder where he learned it from. — Veronica Roth

The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom. — Ian Buruma

Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission. — T.F. Hodge

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. — Nicola Sturgeon

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? — Diana Princess Of Wales

It was like swimming under the stars, like sleeping outside, like climbing a tree in the dark and seeing the view. It was scary and safe and peaceful and exciting, all at the same time. It was the way I felt when I was with him. Like a well-ordered universe. — Morgan Matson

The ruby droplets absorbed by the pitiful tourniquet. — Solange Nicole

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend. — Suzanne Finnamore

See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it. — Robert B. Parker

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners. — Kevin Roberts

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games. — Jason Dohring

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick. — Chico Flores

It's possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity. — Stephenie Meyer