Risonhos Quotes & Sayings

In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end. — Joe Dunthorne

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. — Isaac Of Nineveh

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences. — Victor Davis Hanson

If people lack moral values and integrity, no system of laws and regulations will be adequate. — Dalai Lama XIV

He regretted nothing. Not the way she'd felt in his arms and not the way he'd felt in hers. — Jill Shalvis

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin. — Michel Onfray

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee. — Arianna Huffington

The gospel is life giving, because it generates changes that are received only by grace through faith. This foundational truth, however, gets bypassed, obscured, and forgotten, because, as Martin Luther noted, religion forms the default mode of the human heart. — J.D. Greear

You need to hear what I have to say, she said. Donald waited. What explanation or apology was there? She had taken from him what little Thurman had left behind. Her father had destroyed the world. Anna had destroyed Donald's. He waited to hear what she had to say. — Hugh Howey

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. — Gustave Flaubert