Ictsi Quotes & Sayings

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White

She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the streets on the way to work, on the shop floor. Nothing meant anything. The rooms in the house on Friary Street belonged to her, she thought; when she moved in them she was really there. In the town, if she walked to the shop or to the Vocational School, the air, the light, the ground, it was all solid and part of her, even if she met no one familiar. Nothing here was part of her. It was false, empty, she thought. She closed her eyes and tried to think, as she had done so many times in her life, of something she was looking forward to, but there was nothing. Not the slightest thing. Not even Sunday. Nothing maybe except sleep, and she was not even certain she was looking forward to sleep. In any case, she could not sleep yet, since it was not yet nine o'clock. There was nothing she could do. It was as though she had been locked away. — Colm Toibin

The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering. — Arun Gandhi

In such a case a person would hear of something new which, on the ground of certain evidence, he is asked to accept as true; yet it contradicts many of his wishes and offends some of his highly treasured convictions. He will then hesitate, look for arguments to cast doubt on the new material, and so will struggle for a while until at last he admits it himself: " all this is true after all, although I find it hard to accept and it is painful to have to believe in it." All we learn from this process is that it needs time for the intellectual work of the Ego to overcome objections that are invested by strong feelings. — Sigmund Freud

If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have. — Joyce Meyer

i love reading because it is fun — Elle Fowler

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. — Barack Obama

I've always been a very self-aware person. — Troy Polamalu

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working. — Eric Fellner

I really don't like to read. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Hey ma, your bad boy did good! — Rocky Graziano

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen. — Rene Char

Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet. — Garth Stein