Top 100 Raphael's Quotes
#1. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#2. Never before Raphael had blue meant the color of sin, of seduction. Of pain.
Nalini Singh
#3. In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.
Richard P. Feynman
#4. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#5. Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.
Cassandra Clare
#6. You are a limitless consciousness, Love, and the One who contains within yourself all that is.
Raphael Zernoff
#7. One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'
June Diane Raphael
#8. I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#9. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#10. God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor ...
Raphael Kalinowski
#11. I think Illium can take care of himself."
"Not if he keeps flirting with you."
A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light.
"Raphael's not the sharing kind.
Nalini Singh
#12. Life Works in a Very Simple Way. Resist it less and allow it unfold the way it wants. Use your power of allowing.
Raphael Zernoff
#13. Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.'
'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.'
Elena flinched. 'Elena.'
Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness - absolute power is a corruption.
Nalini Singh
#14. You do realize this makes your wings even more unique."
"Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure?
Nalini Singh
#15. Do not fail me again, Raphael. To you she is just an object or course; to me, she is life
Karen Swart
#16. By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.
Raphael Lemkin
#17. While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown ... that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.
Nalini Singh
#18. Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!
Raphael
#19. If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#21. Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.
Raphael Saadiq
#22. Aodhan was the one who answered, voice quiet but words potent. If Raphael were to perish, the Seven divided, would we not come together should we have a chance to avenge his death?
Nalini Singh
#23. You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood.
Raphael Sinclair
Helen Maryles Shankman
#24. No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision
Sally Jessy Raphael
#25. When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
Raphael Saadiq
#26. A child is a part of the self, and of the loved partner; a representation of generations past; the genes of the forebears; the hope of the future; a source of love, pleasure, even narcissistic delight; a tie or a burden; and sometimes a symbol of the worst parts of the self and others.
Beverly Raphael
#27. Does it involve breaking and entering?" A little smile stretched Raphael's lips. "I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make him dinner yet?" I growled. "This isn't about me and Curran.
Ilona Andrews
#28. The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
Frederic Raphael
#29. We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.
Raphael Zernoff
#30. Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.
Raphael Zernoff
#31. You should see me, dressed to kill. I wear a pair of hacked-off jeans and a too-big T-shirt that I can roll up onto my head when the sun gets bad. I don't wear shoes- one, because I don't have any, and two, because you need to feel with your feet.
Raphael
#32. First you throw bread at my head and bow you expect me to be a movie critic- Raphael said to Elena
Nalini Singh
#33. The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.
Raphael Zernoff
#34. The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#35. How is your writing going, Michael?"
"Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.
Frederic Raphael
#36. I don't want any more murdered women in my family, Raphael." It came out a painful rasp. "I've had enough.
Nalini Singh
#37. The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in its execution and up to this point profited greatly therefrom
Raphael Lemkin
#39. Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#40. I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.
Raphael Saadiq
#41. What you seek you shall find unless you stop searching for it.
Raphael Zernoff
#42. Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night."
-Jace, pg.283-
Cassandra Clare
#43. All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#44. I looked up to the Heavens gauging the distance. Maybe I could catapult Raphael back with an epic kick to the ass.
Ashlan Thomas
#45. While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#46. Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life ...
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#47. My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.
Raphael Saadiq
#48. You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.
Raphael Saadiq
#49. When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.
Raphael Saadiq
#50. It wasn't only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan's presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.
Nalini Singh
#51. You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.
June Diane Raphael
#52. We think that behind that steel door of resistance there's a dragon breathing fire; if we open the door we think we'll be devoured. So often, we open the door, and as someone once said 'we don't find a fire breathing dragon, we find a gerbil in drag.
Raphael Cushnir
#54. Cyn stopped, drawing a deep breath. "Will you answer the fucking question or not? There's more at stake here than Raphael's Dick" Duncan choked back a laugh.
D.B. Reynolds
#55. Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'
Raphael Saadiq
#56. When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.
Ilona Andrews
#58. I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking over a snowfield.
Kate Forsyth
#59. Cyn stepped up and grasped his sweater in her fist, pulling his face down to hers. I love you more than life, Raphael. But I won't be dismissed like some piece of fluff whenever it's convenient.
D.B. Reynolds
#60. This is Michelangelo, and I think it's pretty fucked-up you don't even know which one is yours anymore. You've probably sent Raphael into a depression.
J. Lynn
#61. Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.
Nalini Singh
#62. Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny."
"That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.
Cassandra Clare
#63. Thought you were
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Raphael said
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'I said, no way in hell
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'Damn straight
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and Ransom was ready to come
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woke up and I had wings!
Nalini Singh
#64. Raphael met Michaela's gaze. "If you could kill every single beautiful woman in the world, would you?"
Her smile never faded. "In an instant.
Nalini Singh
#65. We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.
Frederic Raphael
#66. Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.
June Diane Raphael
#67. I promise to keep my hands, tongue, and other body parts to myself. You risk your life by staying home. It's late and we're both too wiped out to go climbing into the People's lair tonight. What do you risk by coming with me?"
"A huge migraine from being in your company.
Ilona Andrews
#68. My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
John Connolly
#69. If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said.
'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.
Ilona Andrews
#70. You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.
Sally Jessy Raphael
#71. ...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net...
Raphael Carter
#72. There's only one thing that matters, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Raphael
#73. What you feel is infatuation. It's an illness, an obsession. It's anything but love.
Raphael Montes
#74. One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy.
Raphael's eyebrows furrowed. "My mother's approval isn't necessary."
Aha. "Does she know that?
Ilona Andrews
#75. If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show - the original Survivor.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#76. My go to karaoke song is 'Stars' from 'Les Mis', which is Javert's song. And it's super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that's what I do.
June Diane Raphael
#77. Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee - and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela - Raphael's as well. Then she put down the carafe.
Nalini Singh
#78. Dios," he said, addressing himself to Jace. "What happened to you, brother? You look as if a pack of wolves tried to tear you apart."
"That's either a shockingly good guess," said Jace, "or you heard about what happened.
Cassandra Clare
#79. What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#80. The moment we stepped out into the hall, Cam's apartment door flung open. Ollie appeared, a cellphone in one hand and Raphael wiggling in the other. "Smile!" he shouted as he snapped a picture on his phone. "It's like my two kids are going to prom.
J. Lynn
#81. Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.
Raphael Soyer
#82. You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.
Nalini Singh
#83. It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.
Raphael Saadiq
#84. Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!
Karen Chance
#85. There's nothing decent about what we're going to do tonight. So, let go and show me who you are."
~Raphael
Tina Folsom
#86. A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.
Nalini Singh
#87. Who is there with you?"
"Raphael"
Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?"
"I said it's nothing major."
"Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalypse was imminent and that was the only way to prevent it.
Ilona Andrews
#88. It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#89. You're prettier than I imagined you", Raphael said. "Uh ... thank you," I said. "But I don't really ... "
"Wait,wait, I've got one," he interrupted. "Somebody better call God. Because Heaven's missing an angel!
Alexandra Adornetto
#90. Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.
Frederic Raphael
#91. I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.
Casey Wilson
#92. The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.
Rob Sheffield
#93. Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#94. You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you? I asked Raphael, annoyed with his arrogance.
Katie MacAlister
#95. Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.
Raphael Zernoff
#96. Raphael's citrine eyes flashed in the night. Leaning down to me, his look wiped any smile from my face, full of promise. "I was asked to dirty the Earth with you, you filthy bastard.
Ashlan Thomas
#97. A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law."
Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel.
Nalini Singh
#98. WHEN SCHOLARS TALK ABOUT THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, they almost always mean printed books like Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
James Shapiro
#99. His emotional state is irrelevant." Raphael's face was brutal in its repudiation. "It's because of him that you didn't have what you needed to heal as a child.
Nalini Singh
#100. You do not have to be so serious about everything and everyone. Trust yourself. Trust your own guidance and do not take everyone's 'interesting opinions' so personally.
Raphael Zernoff