Idas Dans Quotes & Sayings

Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. — Richard Dawkins

In America, it is difficult to be your own man. — Sidney Poitier

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender. — Hunter S. Thompson

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line. — Peter Cosgrove

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. — Melody Carlson

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him? — Beth Moore

Arise my soul, arise to lighter ways,
So cast aside dark shadows haunting thee;
O view the orbs and spheres of brighter days,
Lost fragments fraught with broken ecstasy. — Timothy Salter

In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place. Certainly, the convention existed well before the age of the tape recorder and the wiretap. Not on the phone, in a spy or mystery story, has always been, in and of itself, sufficient to hold up the resolution of the case for a long, long time. — Renata Adler

Good enough, never is. — Peter David

Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world. — Laura Argiri

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture. — Chuck Klosterman

All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed. — James E. Faust

To remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be so serious all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

Reality is not optional. — Thomas Sowell

Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And really be an actress rather than just a mannequin. So that involves a tremendous amount of confidence and your ability to expose yourself to anything that will make a better photograph. — Michael Flutie