Soydan Raf Quotes & Sayings

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? — W.B.Yeats

Trust me, it's the weight of someone else's expectation that's the hardest to lose. — Camille Pagan

Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding works. Thus she becomes the mistress of life itself. She does so with pleasure or with pain, according to the nonsense presented. She makes people contented or discontented with themselves. By dangling before some nothing but the specter of their eternal suffering, she becomes the scourge of these fools. To others she shows nothing but fortune and romance, while merrily laughing. Of all this she is capable if not held in check by the wisest of wills. — Baltasar Gracian

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow. — James Taylor

In the last book of the Iliad (24.602ff.), Achilles urges Priam to eat: even Niobe, he says, after all her children had been slaughtered by the gods, took food eventually. Both Priam and Achilles have been bereaved of their dearest, and yet they gather themselves, and eat, and sleep, and go on living. (...) ...there are two early Lucanian vases with mourners by a grave stele with the same inscription "spoken" by the tomb: "On my back I grow mallow and thick-rooted asphodel: / in my bosom I hold Oedipus, son of Laios." Even Oedipus, the great king of Thebes, archetype of tragedy, experienced a catastrophic fall and descended into the deepest pit of horrors; yet ordinary plants grow on his tomb. We are not so different. — Oliver Taplin

Good signiors, both, when shall we laugh? Say, when? You grow exceeding strange: Must it be so? Salar. We'll make our leisures to attend on yours. — William Shakespeare

He looks like an untouchable piece of artwork, so beautifully put together. So dangerously put together. — Jessica Sorensen

He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them. — Sarah Dessen

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve. — Brian D. McLaren

Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be. — Paul Russell

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. — Lloyd Jones

What can you do? There's the rub. The most important take-home message with diet and health is that anyone who ever expresses anything with certainty is basically wrong, because the evidence for cause and effect in this area is almost always weak and circumstantial, and changing an individual person's diet may not even be where the action is. — Ben Goldacre

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous. — Heloise