Ikenberry Quotes & Sayings

Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion. — John C. Maxwell

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead. — Henry Adams

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. — Alexis De Tocqueville

And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try. — Kiera Cass

This is how we can distinguish true religion from superstition: when the Word of God directs us, there is true religion; but when each man follows his own opinion, or when men join together to follow an opinion they hold in common, the result is always concocted superstition. — John Calvin

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. — Walter E. Williams

The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying. — Etel Adnan

Claire slid one shoe on. Slid one shoe on. Slid one shoe on. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Hypocrites are rather easy to recognize.
They spend most of their time pointing out the
flaws in others, and the rest of the time trying to flaunt their perfection. — Charles F. Glassman

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. — Lynn Abbey

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. — Sharon Salzberg

I scanned the body head to toe, marveling at the thoroughness of the devastation, and the Passenger murmured its appreciation. Someone had spent a great deal of time and effort doing this, and although the results were certainly not up to my high artistic standards, they still showed a certain primitive vigor and abandon that were admirable, even infectious. The technique was clumsy, inefficient, even brutal, but it spoke of a wild experimental joy in the work that was a pleasure to see. After all, so very few of us seem to enjoy our jobs nowadays. Whoever did this clearly did enjoy it. Just as clearly - at least to me - the killer was exploring, seeking something he had not quite found, in spite of a very thorough search. — Jeff Lindsay