Richard Rahl Quotes

Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery. ~ Terry Goodkind

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard ~ Terry Goodkind

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded. ~ Terry Goodkind

Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worse. -Richard Rahl ~ Terry Goodkind

Dance with me Death, for I am ready. ~ Richard Rahl

Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don't give in. Don't let him rule you. If you are to die, die fighting with everything you have, everything you know. That is the way of a dragon. ~ Terry Goodkind

No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included. ~ Richard Matheson

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves. ~ Richard M. Nixon

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. ~ Richard V. Allen

Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you're falling to the floor crying thinking, "I am falling to the floor crying," but there's an element of the ridiculous to it - you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you're on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn't paint it very well. ~ Richard Siken

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people. ~ Richard Branson

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch? ~ Yann Martel

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists. ~ Richard Eder

the biblical scholar Richard Elliott Friedman notes that "probably the most remarkable difference of all" in disparate passages "is their different ways of picturing God." Some depict "a deity who can regret things that he has done ([Gen.] 6:6, 7), . . . a deity who can be 'grieved to his heart' (6:6). . . . This anthropomorphic quality . . . is virtually entirely lacking in other passages. ~ Terryl L. Givens

When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it. ~ Richard Avedon

An itinerant selfish gene/ Said 'bodies a- plenty I've seen./ You think you're so clever/ But I'll live for ever./ You're just a survival machine. ~ Richard Dawkins

Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento. ~ Edith Hahn Beer

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed. ~ Richard Paul Evans

My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica. ~ Richard Mille

We bless the organized church structures and their meetings. But if there are 10,000 others that meet outside of these ecclesiastical structures, that's wonderful, too. The kingdom of God moves forward in lots and lots of ways. ~ Richard Foster

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others. ~ Richard Chamberlain

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil. ~ Richard Flanagan

All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds. ~ Richard Brautigan

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that. ~ Richard Flanagan

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them. ~ Bai Ling

god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word. ~ Richard Farina

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. ~ Richard K. Morgan

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like. ~ Richard Sherman

The next morning he boarded the train for the six-hour journey south that would bring him to the strange gothic spires and arches of St. Pancras Station. His mother gave him a small walnut cake that she had made for the journey and a thermos filled with tea; and Richard Mayhew went to London feeling like hell. ~ Neil Gaiman

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking. ~ Richard Stallman

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them. ~ Richard Perle

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity. ~ Richard P. Feynman

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine. ~ Richard Dawkins

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. ~ Richard Bach

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ~ Richard Whately

Goals are discovered, not made. ~ Richard J. Foster

As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called "good self-esteem." But self-esteem is
an art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of
ourselves.
The name for thinking too much of ourselves is "egotism. ~ Richard N. Bolles

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. ~ Richard Dawkins

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past. ~ Richard Linklater

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ~ Richard Bach

Oh God, look what you did."
"God's away on business, Kas. Talk to me. ~ Richard Kadrey

Embrace life ... Don't live the past. ~ Richard Allen Whisenant

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. ~ Richard Ernst

My life in politics has taught me that the only thing more difficult than fighting against our enemies is taking questions from my friends." Amid knowing chuckles, he promised, "Nonetheless, I shall do my best. ~ Richard North Patterson

The psyche's job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we'll behave in any situation. We're all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement. Our thoughts are shaped primarily by legacy hardware that evolved to assume that everyone else must be right. But even when the fog is pointed out, we're no better at navigating through it. ~ Richard Powers

What if we all carried little timers that counted down the days of our lives? Maybe the timer's a bit dramatic. Just the date would do. It could be tattooed on our foreheads like the expiration date on a milk bottle. It might be a good thing. Maybe we'd stop wasting our lives worrying about things that never happen or collecting things that we can't take with us. We'd probably treat people better. We certainly wouldn't be screaming at someone who had a day left. Maybe people would finally stop living like they're immortal. Maybe we could finally learn how to live. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. ~ Richard Thompson