Quotes of Jonathan Raban

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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

- Jonathan Raban

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“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ I love my attitude problem. ”

- Unknown

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown

“ Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it ”

- Vineet Raj Kapoor

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau