Ihenna Quotes & Sayings

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile. — Steve Martin

Watanabe beat POWs every day, fracturing their windpipes, rupturing their eardrums, shattering their teeth, tearing one man's ear half off, leaving men unconscious. He made one officer sit in a shack, wearing only a fundoshi undergarment, for four days in winter. He tied a sixty-five-year-old POW to a tree and left him there for days. He ordered one man to report to him to be punched in the face every night for three weeks. He practiced judo on an appendectomy patient. When gripped in the ecstasy of an assault, he wailed and howled, drooling and frothing, sometimes sobbing, tears running down his cheeks. Men came to know when an outburst was imminent: Watanabe's right eyelid would sag a moment before he snapped. — Laura Hillenbrand

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how. — John Alexander Dowie

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still? — Waylon Jennings

We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can't understand all the fuss about Mona Lisa painting, everyone wondering why she's not smiling, if she's depressed or heartbroken. No, she was just normal!
Emotions are always extreme these days: you either have to be crying with laughter or crying in pain. No wonder water levels are rising. It's not global warming, it's all the tears from crying. — Karl Pilkington

The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids - for everyone, even if you fail at first - to target something and head in that direction. With all your might. — Tim Allen

Even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man. — Alice Hegan Rice

I love you" I said into his shoulder...."You don.t You could--I think--in time. But you're just saying that to me because you think you won't have a chance to say it truthfully someday, aren't you?"
"Yes," I confessed. "I am." "Then I love you too," he said, and I know we both wished we meant it. — Affinity Konar

To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not. — Criss Jami

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction. — John Steinbeck

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. — Pancho Segura

Several hundred feet ahead, Saphira and Thorn tussled, two giants in the night. — Christopher Paolini

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals. — Lal Bahadur Shastri