Orlaith Rafter Quotes

#1. Bob slid his chair back and moved the coal-oil lamp from the kitchen to the sitting room. He said, "Oftentimes things seem impossible up until they're attempted." Then he lidded the chimney glass with his palm and suffocated the light.

Ron Hansen

#2. Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.

Meister Eckhart

#3. Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.

Debasish Mridha

#4. It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

Lois Lowry

#5. Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Margaret Cavendish

#6. What I believe
is that life
is music and fabulous foliage,
but it's also cancer and wars.
That's just how it is.
Maybe God could do better.
But shit, so could we.

Lisa Schroeder

#7. Poetry = Anger x Imagination

Sherman Alexie

#8. Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

David Talbot

#9. It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

Hannah Arendt

#10. Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Paul Giamatti

#11. Tell me to stop, Sugar, or I'm going to start a firestorm of emotion neither one of us will know how to handle."
She smiled. "I've always loved storms."
He jerked her face closer and her heart rate kicked up. "Then it's time you were introduced to a Florida hurricane.

Vonnie Davis

#12. Plant the seed now, enjoy the fruit later.

Nick

#13. You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Bill Gates

#14. Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Carl Jung