Raif Quotes

#1. Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Brian Raif

#2. Brennan didn't look exactly like Raif to Shayla's eyes, but for someone who didn't know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years.

Marjorie F. Baldwin

#3. After all," he thought, "what can a magician do against a lead ball? Between the pistol firing and his heart exploding, there is no time for magic.

Susanna Clarke

#4. Her timing sucked. She was pretty sure the Fates were smoking joints and sitting around laughing at their crystal ball.

T.S. Joyce

#5. To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.

Raif Badawi

#6. Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

Salman Rushdie

#7. If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.

Malcolm X

#8. As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

F. Sionil Jose

#9. For me, liberalism simply means, live and let live. This is a splendid slogan

Raif Badawi

#10. Raif spared me the embarrassment of making me wear one of his Lord of the Rings outfits.

Amanda Bonilla

#11. States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.

Raif Badawi

#12. Like the invention of the telescope, the introduction of MRI machines and a variety of advanced brain scans

Michio Kaku

#13. FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the air that any thinker breathes; it's the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual's thoughts.

Raif Badawi

#14. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.

Raif Badawi

#15. Can't we just go in a dark corner like normal people who need to hide from highly trained evil killers?" she said.
"What, and let everyone imagine all the delightful things two jinn can do in the dark?"
"You're unbelievable."
"Thank you.

Heather Demetrios

#16. Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.

Jackie Sigmund

#17. When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now.

Rob Liano

#18. Look at all the countries that are based on a religious ideology; look at their people and the generations born into it: What do they have to offer human civilization?

Raif Badawi

#19. Passionate love is a quenchless thirst ...

Khalil Gibran

#20. My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

Raif Badawi

#21. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.

Milena Michiko Flasar