Rauner Center Quotes & Sayings

I kissed him like he was air and I couldn't breathe. — Rose Christo

What is this? He has a sensation of touching glass. He doesn't know if they are talking about nothing or making code for the deepest meanings. — John Updike

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream. — Robin S. Sharma

Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder, — Ruskin Bond

More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

She wondered whether there was any way of getting him to take the pills by trickery. She did not like the idea of using underhand methods with Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, but when a person's reason was disturbed, then she thought that any means were justified in getting them better. It was as if a person had been kidnapped by some evil being and held ransom. You would not hesitate, she felt, to resort to trickery to defeat the evil being. — Alexander McCall Smith

Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him? — Nouman Ali Khan

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines ... or private emails or text messages ... or the location of your mobile phone at any time. — Mikko Hypponen

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate. — Samuel R. Delany