Raveready Quotes & Sayings

Romantic enthusiasm lifts the good aloft and removes it into the dim distance of the incomparable and unattainable; at the same time it portrays the good in a human countenance out of which it looks at us and we can look back at it, face to face, in admiration and ecstasy, and stretch out our arms towards it. Thus the moral good is represented in human, and at the same time superhuman, form; it is of our own kind, and yet above our kind; it confronts us, but makes no demands. IT is not really a standard and lacks the power to issues commandments. Both are given at once: the ethical which one would like to love; and the passive, the romantic, in which one wants to live. As a substitute for constant activity demanded by the ethical commandment, we have adoration in which the romantic impression of the moment in vented, and yearning which need only admire and enjoy but not achieve anything. — Leo Baeck

I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have, — Sharon Gless

There are the stars
doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk ... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest. — Thornton Wilder

I was barely five-feet and had a hard time finding shoes that fit, because my feet were so small. — Kristie K. Shafer

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death. — Francis George

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others. — Shakti Gawain