Foubert Ijs Quotes & Sayings

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. — Evita Peron

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man. — Ray Nitschke

How many books do you have here?" Corliss asked. "Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven," the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books? — Sherman Alexie

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals. — Fredrik Reinfeldt

A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. — Jorge Luis Borges

I don't want to go through it all again. All that time without you, always waiting, my foolish optimism that someday it would be different-"
"Your optimism was justified! Look at me. Look at us! This is different. I know it is, Daniel. I saw us in Helston and Tibet and Tahiti. We were in love, sure, but it was nothing like what we have now."
They'd dropped back farther, out of earshot of the others. They were just Luce and Daniel, two lovers talking in the sky. "I'm still here," she said. "I'm here because you believed in us. You believed in me."
"I did-I do believe in you."
"I believe in you, too." She heard a smile enter her voice. "I always have."
They were not going to fail. — Lauren Kate

Waking up next to you is like when other people get to sleep in and keep dreaming. — Stacey T. Hunt

I could love you, you know."
"I could love you, too. — Kristen Callihan

He held the door shut with his hand. "I'll stop fighting the second I graduate. I won't drink a single drop again. I'll give you the happy ever after, Pigeon. If you just believe in me, can do it."
"I don't want you to change."
"Then tell me what to do. Tell me and I'll do it," he pleaded. — Jamie McGuire

Emotional reactivity flips us into a different mode of attention, one where our world contracts into fixation on what's upsetting us. — Anonymous