Ingiverson Quotes & Sayings

Never allow your game to be played by someone else's rules. The game you create is the reality you wish to live and that will be the love you do or do not endure. — A.H. Carlisle III

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation. — Tom Vilsack

If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow. — Jack Gilbert

This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest ... In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm quickly approaching the moment of discovery: of myself by myself, which was something I knew all along and yet didn't know; and the discovery by poor half-blind Dr. Philobosian of what he'd failed to notice at my birth and continued to miss during every annual physical thereafter; and the discovery by my parents of what kind of child they'd given birth to (answer: the same child, only different); and finally, the discovery of the mutated gene that had lain buried in our bloodline for two hundred and fifty years, biding its time, waiting for Ataturk to attack, for Hajienestis to turn into glass, for a clarinet to play seductively out a back window, until, comint together with its recessive twin, it started the chain of events that led to me, here, writing in Berlin. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Connoisseurs of Russian beauty could have foretold with certainty that this fresh, still youthful beauty would lose its harmony by the age of thirty, would "spread"; that the face would become puffy, and that wrinkles would very soon appear upon her forehead and round the eyes; the complexion would grow coarse and red perhaps - in fact, that it was the beauty of the moment, the fleeting beauty which is so often met with in Russian women. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

True love hurts. Always — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Part of a woman's nature is to nurture, accept, support and love regardless of their environment. It is what makes them powerful: the ability to navigate through all adversity and still continue to grow life and eventually the universe. — DeiAmor Verus

I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough. — Will.i.am

If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with that is if all of a sudden, you are hired just because of the color of your skin, ability has nothing to do with it.And if ability has nothing to do with it, what does it do? It promotes mediocrity. — Rafael Cruz