Ifpl Quotes & Sayings

Silas knew words could have power behind them. Usually it was just a sort of bad luck. He also knew, very early on, that you could never tell when that bad luck would jump up to claim its due, so it was best to be careful. Quiet was safer. He wished his parents had been quieter when they were together. Who knew what might happen when you said something awful to someone else? It was hard to take some words back. Some words stuck and you couldn't shake them off. Silence was better than those kinds of words. Silas had learned that lesson the hard way. — Ari Berk

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I associate music with fun and joy. — Joshua Bell

How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp.
Psalm — David Lehman

His heart swelled at her bravery. This was the lady he wanted by his side - and in his arms - for the rest of his life. — Melanie Dickerson

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

About Differences: Those who would believe in a higher power by whatever name must also believe that same higher power made all things. On that basis, people of good character will recognize that some people are different from ourselves, in color, gender, speech, opinion, lifestyle, and in other ways. Different is not an evaluation. As I taught my children while they were growing up, "Different is only different." Celebrate differences for therein lies the basis for much of what we learn in life. — James Osborne

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing — Ishmael Reed

The world is always ending for someone. It's a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. 'The world is always ending for someone,' he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did. — Neil Gaiman

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this? — Jimmy Buffett

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. — Alan Watts

Cinder, I believe you would make a great ruler. I believe this decision is proof of that." He hesitated. "But I also know you never wanted to be queen. Not really." Cinder had never told him that, and she wondered if it had been obvious this whole time. "But I have to ask if" - Kai hesitated - "if you think, someday, you might consider being an empress." Cinder — Marissa Meyer