Lapida Quotes

#1. All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church. - Author: Leonard Ravenhill

#2. There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching. - Author: Michael Longley

#3. Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself. - Author: Colum McCann

#4. Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour. - Author: Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

#5. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. - Author: Thomas Sowell

#6. The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates - Author: Dan Millman

#7. What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them. - Author: Mustafa Akyol

#8. Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold. - Author: Sherry Turkle

#9. I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time. - Author: Nina Simone