Geesaman Iowa Quotes & Sayings

You sit better on a colour that you like — Verner Panton

I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. — Alfred Bester

People ask, "Are you important enough for me to love you?" But they've got it all wrong. When you love someone, you make them important. And the same thing happens to you. You don't love them because they're important; they become important because you love them. — C. JoyBell C.

Life is the ability to start over again. — Joan D. Chittister

Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now. — Lorrie Moore

London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale. — John Lanchester

I was too concerned with my own dignity. Grovelling and compliments were the order of the day. I made the mistake of trying to teach them their business. — Debbie Horsfield

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church. — Mark Galli

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy. — Adam Weishaupt

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money. — Stella Chess

I never found anybody I wanted to lose everything for. — Christina Lee