Rayures Blanches Quotes & Sayings

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. — Antonio Tabucchi

Seek wisdom, and success will find you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself. — Chinua Achebe

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. — Charles Spurgeon

Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique. — John R.W. Stott

Wish I had ten hands. I want to touch you everywhere while I'm doing this. — Pepper Winters

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?' — Twyla Tharp

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others. — Benjamin Franklin

Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the divine channel through us. — Chuck Palahniuk

What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing! — Boris Pasternak

And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. He — Jon Ronson

To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue. — Marvin Ammori