Rybou Quotes & Sayings

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. — Thomas Wharton

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe! — C.S. Lewis

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us. — Alan Autry

no man, if he be ungrateful, will be unhappy in the future. I allow him no day of grace; he is unhappy forthwith. — Seneca.

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods. — Bertrand Russell

Try to strengthen your steps, move a little bit faster towards your dream. — Euginia Herlihy

Those sloppy priests that go around without their cassocks!" he would agonize. "Better that they go without their cassocks since they're just chasing after prostitutes anyway!" And he'd agonize more. It was true. There were womanizing priests. And liquor flowed faster than communion wine among them. Pastoral plans? They all went up in smoke. There was no interest. There was no effort. And the bishop? Bishop Machado didn't give orders and he didn't give advice. What he gave were loans at outrageous interest rates. Everybody knew those stories, and Father Romero knew them best because he saw all the drama from the inside. — Maria Lopez Vigil

I could see the widening of his pupils, and the pale blue fire of his irises. He'd told me my eyes would change too, would go lighter until they looked like amber. I couldn't imagine they'd be half as beautiful as his. He was gentle and self-deprecating and way tougher than people gave him credit for. And twin or not, he was even hotter than Quinn, in my humble opinion. — Alyxandra Harvey

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. — Albert Einstein