Ibsenite Quotes & Sayings

On Monday last I sat without a murmur in a stuffy theatre on a summer afternoon from three to nearly half-past 6, spellbound by Ibsen; but the price I paid for it was to find myself stricken with mortal impatience and boredom the next time I attempted to sit out the pre-Ibsenite drama for five-minutes. 269 — George Bernard Shaw

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle

My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid. — Cristela Alonzo

We become moral when we are unhappy. — Marcel Proust

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. — Lawrence Summers

All stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened. — Jose Saramago

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say. — T.F. Hodge

Shed peace, not discord, wherever you go. Try to be part of the cure of every situation, not part of the problem. Try to ignore evil, rather than to actively combat it. Always try to build up, never to tear down. Show others by your example that happiness comes from living the right way. The power of your example is greater than the power of what you say. — Anonymous

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. — Naguib Mahfouz

Creativity is the key to discovery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball. — Kevin Durant

He fucks me like he means it, like he needs it, like being inside of me is more important than anything inside of him, and every cell in my body calls out to him, craving more of it. — J.M. Darhower

I love you because I can be honest with you. I trust you. I love you because you've made me see I'm more than I thought. — Barbara Elsborg

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964. — Strom Thurmond

There's something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn't stop. There is no controlling it - love does what it wants when it wants. — H.M. Ward