Riiser Quotes & Sayings

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear. — Robert Aitken

She approached his throne warily, looking at Poseidon and Apollo, who were both grinning at her, holding bouquets of flowers and boxes of candy. She though, uh-oh. — Rick Riordan

I am young and avid for glory. — Antoine Lavoisier

SEALs, like the name said, were trained to operate in all conditions - SEa, Air, Land. But Stuffy Victorian Hotel Lobby hadn't made the list. — Laura Griffin

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. — Christopher Hitchens

Deliver us, O Allah, from the Sea of Names. — Ibn Arabi

Georgie was quiet. Neal had never slept with Dawn. She'd always assumed he'd had lots of fabulous young sex with Dawn. Freshly scrubbed Heartland-teenager sex. 'Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze,' et cetera. — Rainbow Rowell

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things. — Eugene H. Peterson

You have a destination attached to your life. And your Internal Navigator will guide you there, no matter how off track you get. God has a set plan for you, and He will not switch destinations if you venture off course for a while. — Trillion Small

Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a distinct possibility. — Kelly Moran

The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the [Communications Decency Act] would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result. — Stewart Dalzell

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could. — Gayle Forman

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it — Andrew Lyon

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof. — John Stuart Mill