Iactare Quotes & Sayings

Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative. — Marianne Williamson

We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. — Lucy Stone

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. — Whitfield Diffie

Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years. — Tommy Lasorda

When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire. — Mark Zuckerberg

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated. — Jeffrey Fry

If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first. — Beth Revis

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive. — Theodor W. Adorno

I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away. — Melina Marchetta

A woman says: I plan to cut the shoulder pads out of all my blouses and dresses and load them on a barge and dump them in Lake Winnipeg, creating a tidal wave which I'm told can be harnessed to provide electric power to the entire region. — Carol Shields

There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light. — Monica Potter

The truth is that it hurts because it's real-it hurts because it mattered. — John Green

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy