Ihoney Quotes & Sayings

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. — Barbra Streisand

On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing.
But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world. — Brenna Yovanoff

Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win? — John Scalzi

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould

Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top? — Charles Wheelan

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know. — Paul Haggis

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out. — Lana Parrilla

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn't easy. I didn't ask for this. I didn't want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage. — A. J. Jacobs

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words. — Karen Abbott

I asked for reasons, and here they are, yelling and smelling and demanding, the last people in the world, and I need them. — Terry Pratchett

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network. — Paul Theroux

Person's own level of virtue is a tradeoff between the esteem that comes from cultivating a reputation as a cooperator and the ill-gotten gains of stealthy cheating. A social group is a marketplace of cooperators of differing degrees of generosity and trustworthiness, and people advertise themselves as being as generous and trustworthy as they can get away with, which may be a bit more generous and trustworthy than they are. The — Steven Pinker

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi