Ripest Fruit Quotes

#1. We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. One way to know if you are working in your strengths is to ask yourself, "Do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?" That's what you want for your role: You want to be doing what you do best every day.

Matt Perman

#3. They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule.

Behdad Sami

#4. One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Martin Amis

#5. I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

William Lane Craig

#7. I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

George Osborne

#8. Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Friedrich Schiller

#9. Hope is the grace of a happy heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

Karen Horney

#11. The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. Increasingly, Sawtooth's own memories are a loud bright muddle, like opening the door on a party full of strangers. He lies awake at night, limping down the long corridors of his memory, trying to find the girl's hands, ...

Karen Russell