Ijdelea Quotes & Sayings

As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can't guarantee I'm going to be a complete gentleman about it. — Meredith Wild

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, We'll take it. — Eleanor Brown

The FBI and the CIA hate each other, and they both hate the telephone company. The telephone company, in turn, seems to hate everybody. — John A. Keel

Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame. — Steven D. Levitt

He tried to make each painting capture that gently fuzzed qualit the camera gave everything, as if someone had patted away a top layer of clarity and left behind something kinder than the eye alone would see. — Hanya Yanagihara

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be. — Ayn Rand

Don't build yourself an ivory tower" the moralists say. But I am an ivory tower by the mere fact that I am. On the crude physical level the body is a frame of (ivory) bones on which the muscles are stretched, crowned by an (ivory) bone pill-box turret housing the brain - shielding it from the blows of 'reality' so that it can get on with its absurd work undisturbed. On the non-physical level my I-ness is an ivory tower of orderly individual views and vistas shielding 'me' from being swallowed up in chaos. Dear moralists: don't they see that life is a constant flight up and down the endless steps of the dark ivory tower seeking to escape from the horrid chaos of real freedom? — Nanamoli Thera

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me — Tupac Shakur

All descriptions of how near certainty is to be achieved are based primarily on emerging technologies. A Global Information Grid of "persistent surveillance" will gather information and share that information in a networked "collaborative information environment." Automated systems will fuse that intelligence and make possible "virtual collaboration among geographically dispersed" analysts who will generate intelligence and, ultimately, knowledge. Some even assume that this "robust intelligence" will deliver not only a clear appreciation for the current situation, but also generate "predictive intelligence" that will allow US forces to "anticipate the unexpected." Despite its enthusiastic embrace, the assumption of near-certainty in future war is a dangerous fallacy. — H.R. McMaster

If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren't only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. — Mahatma Gandhi

The hardest thing on earth is to know the ways of men and still manage to be in good spirits. — Stefan Emunds

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.' — Virchand Gandhi

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most. — Barry B. Powell