Shokooh Rafati Quotes

#1. It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.

Nigel Barker

#3. No one else could see all the bodies she'd left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or maybe that was just her, looking at herself, and not liking what she saw. Knowing she could never escape her own judging gaze.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#4. Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville

#5. Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
[Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

Juvenal

#6. With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

Pindar

#7. It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#9. He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

James Merrill