Ripely Quotes & Sayings

In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit. — Ramez Naam

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It's spooky how we'll never know how many people have died while trying to mail a chain letter. — Alex Bosworth

Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as
more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than to read him, as was
hitherto my habit, on Sunday mornings in the garden. He is a person who
loves the open air, and will refuse to give you much pleasure if you try
to read him amid the pomp and circumstance of upholstery; but out in the
sun, and especially by this pond, he is delightful, and we spend the
happiest hours together, he making statements, and I either agreeing
heartily, or just laughing and reserving my opinion till I shall have
more ripely considered the thing. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity. — Joe Tye

She has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins. — Charles Baxter

My go-to drink is a mix of cukes, kale, apple and other healthy stuff. — Noureen DeWulf

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing ... Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition. — Alfred North Whitehead

He raised his head and roared, "Now it is time!" then louder, "Time!"; then so loud that is could have shaken the stars, "TIME. — C.S. Lewis

Have you seen the stars, Enaiat?" "What have the stars got to do with anything?" "Count them, Enaiat." "That's impossible. There are too many of them." "Then start now, said Mother. Otherwise you'll never finish." (p.10/11) — Fabio Geda

Love with passion. Love for no reason. — Debasish Mridha

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out? — Andy Rooney

Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to
the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game. — David Levithan

His apartment wasn't spared from his wrath as he slammed cabinets and chugged a glass of juice in the most aggressive way he could muster, because that's what his life had been reduced to; angrily drinking juice. — Marcus Atley

I walk in the sprinkling rain like a lion. Pretty soon there won't be lions anymore. If I have to die to be a lion I'll die. I'm roaring, but in the language of rain and sand: I am invisible, I blend in, and I'm not hungry so everyone is safe. I can just observe them, join them, I can admire them, I can pity them and love them. They're so pathetically beautiful I could cry. How could I ever forget that this world is gorgeous and interesting? Every little detail is a gateway to huge canyons of knowledge and understanding. And it's all so sexy. Nothing is restrained, everything is perfectly, ripely, ravishingly itself, and swollen with signs and information that link it in the web. — Richard Hell