Schiffmann Raphael Quotes & Sayings

My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture. — Salman Rushdie

Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower. — Peter Kreeft

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good. — Seneca The Younger

Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. — Jim Butcher

Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
"I've got to paint," he repeated.
"Supposing you're never anything more than third-rate, do you think it will have been worth while to give up everything? After all, in any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good; you can get along quite comfortably if you're just adequate; but it's different with an artist."
"You blasted fool," he said.
"I don't see why, unless it's folly to say the obvious."
"I tell you I've got to paint. I can't help myself. When a man falls into the water it doesn't matter how he swims, well or badly: he's got to get out or else he'll drown. — W. Somerset Maugham

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days. — Jeanette Winterson

The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee that He keeps His covenant with day and night, and tend to assure thee that He will also keep that glorious covenant which He has made with thee in the person of Christ Jesus. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful. — Rebecca Solnit

To be a liberal is to care about more than one's own belly or roof. It is to care about the rights of all men and women to live and breathe freely. Freely, do you hear me? This is not oppression. Stop saying that black is white and night is day. Freedom is not slavery! So stop with the Orwellian double talk and start working to help more than yourself. Lining your own pockets is the opposite of helping this world! — Robert Peate

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university. — Ren Ng

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life. — Pope Francis

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them? — Charles Bradlaugh

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated. — Maud Adams

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view. — Gautama Buddha