Rauno Teder Quotes & Sayings

As the wind ripped through the flimsy protection offered by my hoodie, I began to realize the fairly hopeless situation I had gotten myself into and began to pray that either the storm would pass over or that some kind person would come to my rescue.
Apparently, Alex wasn't the only one avoiding my calls. Or maybe God just didn't feel the need to answer the prayers of complete morons. — Tammy Blackwell

The most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all. — Jane Austen

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well. — Timothy Freke

In order for something to qualify as a miracle, it must be more than statistically unlikely; it must be physically impossible without some sort of supernatural intervention. — Armin Navabi

And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making - even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are biochemical pattern-recognition machines and mathematics is nothing less than the distilled essence of who we are. — Paul Lockhart

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot

...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think has any lasting quality? I don't. It is partly idle chatter, partly propaganda, partly self-pitying sentimentality, but there is no insight, no ideas, no clarity, no substance and almost always the language is bad and constrained. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair. — Amanda Lindhout

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is. — Raoul Wallenberg

Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet. — Walter Jon Williams

Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist. — Chetan Bhagat