Ruakuri Quotes & Sayings

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible ... Global warming does not press any of those buttons. — Daniel Gilbert

It's often said that God made man in His own image, it's also true that man makes God in his own image. — R.K. Narayan

The greatest fact of the tabernacle was that Jehovah was there; a Presence was waiting within the veil. Similarly the Presence of God is the central fact of Christianity. At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence. — A.W. Tozer

Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child? — Sloane Kennedy

God hasn't called us to something in a year. We're called for the here and now. We were not made to survive today for some potential future endeavor, something that maybe he'll do through us one day. — Mark Hall

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. — Logan Pearsall Smith

In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present ... In short, the different ranks of men are, in a great measure, regulated by riches. — David Hume

The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith. — Thomas Mann

I remain fundamentally optimistic about
Wall Street as a marketplace and as a vehicle for wealth creation. Its
future will rightly depend on several variables, chief among them
being human choices; whether they be rationally, emotionally, subjectively
or objectively made. Financial engineering taught us that if
it could be quantified, it could be qualified. We learned about how
to use leverage and have abused that knowledge for a myriad of
reasons. We became practitioners of the transaction-based model, but forgot that long before the abacus there was trust and integrity,
anchors of relationship-based models common with Middle East and
Asian markets. It goes back to a handshake, the first and enduring
example of mutual consensus. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche. — Anthony Langston

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices. — Carolyn Wells

His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, "Now, that's a real name." He brightens and reels off some line: "Nick's the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car. Nick!" He — Gillian Flynn

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. — Benjamin Disraeli

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter