Rikuo Quotes & Sayings

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves — Lorna Goodison

If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude. — Stifyn Emrys

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right. — John Banville

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. — Edvard Munch

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken. — Rose George

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates. — Jimmy Carter

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. — George Bernard Shaw

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken. — Neko Case

If people around me aren't moved by my Christ or my church, then I must be doing a miserable job of representing them both. — Jen Hatmaker

You don't need luck. Everything you need is right inside you. — Kristen Heitzmann

Stop seeing what you want to see, Merik Nihar, and start seeing what's really here! — Susan Dennard

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. — Peter Stuyvesant

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein — Jon Krakauer

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. — Henrik Ibsen