Raymore Quotes & Sayings

Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two thousand years ago. — Sam Harris

'Instagram' Direct is a really interesting feature because it's grown significantly since we launched it. People continue to use it to communicate more privately. — Kevin Systrom

Plato utterly condemns the poets for publishing trivial, false and indeed wicked stories about the gods, such as that they fight with each other, or are overcome by emotions like grief, anger, mirth. Reluctantly, he will not allow Homer in his Republic, and he is very angry with the tragic poets for spreading unworthy ideas of the Deity.

It may well be that there were inferior tragic poets who deserved Plato's strictures, but so far as concerns the tragic poets whom we know, Plato's attack is absurd. It is the attack of a severely intellectual philosopher who was also more of a poet than most poets have contrived to be; one who invented some of the profoundest and most beautiful of Greek myths. 'There is a long-standing quarrel', says Plato, 'between philosophy and poetry.' So there was, on the part of the philosophers, and most of all in Plato's own soul. — H.D.F. Kitto

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. — Paula Poundstone

If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life. — Warren Buffett

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them. — Alanis Morissette

Just like any woman, ... we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same. — Francesca Lia Block

I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things. — Queen Latifah

My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago. — Derek Sanderson

if i were rain,
that join sky and earth that otherwise never touch, could i join two hearths as well? — Tite Kubo

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. — Kathryn Bigelow

I like working by myself. — James Vincent McMorrow

Light tomorrow with today. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything. — Flannery O'Connor