Iiris Suomela Quotes & Sayings

communication simply requires — Charles Petzold

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. — Nick Harkaway

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. — Mortimer Adler

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans. — Mickey Kaus

Metaphors are lies. — Mark Haddon

Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering heavy-duty cravings for fattening, sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners also mess with your metabolism. — Suzanne Somers

Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days. — D.H. Lawrence

Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing to let anyone believe in God if he pleases, but only on condition that a belief in God will mean no more than belief in anything else. They will allow God, provided that God does not matter. But taking God seriously is precisely what makes the saint. As St. Teresa put it, "What is not God to me is nothing." This passion is called snobbish, intolerant, stupid, and unwarranted intrusion; yet those who resent it deeply wish in their own hearts that they had the saint's inner peace and happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". — Hans Asperger

Forgiveness works the miracle of change. — Wilferd Peterson

Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem. — Timothy Long

The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions. — Dada Bhagwan

Madeline Reynolds — Natasha Lowe

Everything is about to go to hell very quickly, so I want one moment where we don't talk about that. We pretend it doesn't exist. I want one last quiet moment with you."
"No, Loki." I shook my head, but I didn't pull away. "I told you that was one night and it could never happen again."
"And I told you that one night wasn't enough. — Amanda Hocking