Ifas Edis Quotes & Sayings

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother. — Tanya Tucker

[...] what else motivated him to spend hour after hour with me, telling all the details of his story? I quote at length his answer.

"I suffered so much and for so long. Maybe if people read this they will realize that if I can make it,they can make it. Many people suffer only because of what happens in their head; I was also physically being tortured. I had no food. No water. If I can make it so can you. If one depressed person avoids committing suicide then the book is a success.

Be strong. Think positive. If you start to think to the contrary, you are headed to failure. Your mind has to be relaxed as you think about survival. Don't think about death. If you think you are going to die, you will die. You have to survive and think about the future of your life, that life is beautiful! How can you imagine taking your own life? There are challenges and punishment in life but you have to fight! — Jonathan Franklin

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."
"I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray. — Oscar Wilde

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true. — Robert Novak

Generals, admirals, kings, and presidents make history; words change history. In more than two centuries of watching, at least that has not changed. -- Joshua Augustus Johnson. "Appomattox — Lloyd Vancil

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it. — Josh Lucas

Do just one thing every day in the direction of your dreams. — J. P. Blake

But Vikram had seen through every facet, holding me against the light as if I truly were translucent, and instead of making me feel as if I had been looked through and found wanting, I felt . . . seen. — Roshani Chokshi

There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers. — Jessie Bernard

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent. — Karen Allen

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. — Michael J. Fox

If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there. — Romesh Wadhwani

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple. — Rita Ora

Cal!' Beverly called out over the crowd... But Cal looked back at her as if it were some weird coincidence that his name was Cal and this complete stranger had said something to someone who was also named Cal. He turned away. Jeanette stood just beside her, looking at the strap of her little shoulder bad, staring at it. Had anyone had this child tested? — Ann Patchett

Be the voice, not the echo. — Pete Sprankle