Quotes About Ragen

#1. Hiding isn't always enough, Arlen,' Ragen said. 'Sometimes, hiding kills something inside of you, so that even if you survive the demons, you don't really.

Peter V. Brett

#2. Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.

Peter V. Brett

#3. You can't help everyone, Arlen," Ragen said, "but you should make every
effort to help those you can.

Peter V. Brett

#4. You can fight corelings?' he asked.
'You can fight anything, Arlen,' Ragen said. 'The problem with fighting corelings is that more often than not, you lose.

Peter V. Brett

#5. To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure things ... Love of God. Love of good deeds. Love of country and family. Love of ideas.

Naomi Ragen

#6. When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to God in love and thanks, rather than to curse Him and one's fate, was the ultimate choice of any human creature, and perhaps the ultimate expression of one's humanity.

Naomi Ragen

#7. Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

Naomi Ragen

#9. Be a Survivor, Not a Victim

J.L. Higgs

#10. Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Chris Hardwick

#11. Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism to solve any of the world's problems and its unenviable success in inventing many new ones.

Naomi Ragen

#12. Half a loaf being better than none, I

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

David Rockefeller

#14. It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

Naomi Ragen

#15. When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.

Naomi Ragen

#16. People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

Peter V. Brett

#17. Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

Sherman Alexie

#18. Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. If you truly believe in something
that is totally rejected by others,
then you've just made a difference.

Toba Beta

#20. Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.

Karin Slaughter

#21. My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Rowan Atkinson

#22. Suffering did different things to different people ... Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

Naomi Ragen

#23. So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

Naomi Ragen

#24. Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.

Gamaliel

#25. Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Brian Chesky

#26. I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

Shania Twain

#27. Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Livy

#28. Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

Julia Stiles

#29. I am the boss of my underpants. You can be the boss of yours.

Ragen Chastain

#30. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

Naomi Ragen

#31. He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.

Naomi Ragen

#32. Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

Naomi Ragen