Risata Raven Quotes & Sayings

God is directing every one of your steps. — Joel Osteen

Be who you are and be that well. — Francis De Sales

This time, I felt like I was on the other side of that, looking past duty and worry and rank, seeing the true heart of a person.
And his was so beautiful. — Kiera Cass

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon. — Joseph Brodsky

He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he said. "And it's infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded by men pretending to act for justice than when it's simply inefficient, or even when its elected administrator's are crooked. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that. — Madeleine Peyroux

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive. — Mo Ibrahim

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity. — Amy Tan

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai