Initsoc Quotes & Sayings

We can never forget the beautiful places we have been. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Instincts that worked in the ancestral environment were not sufficient in a world that regulated playground visits and allowed choices between tofu and pizza. — Graeme Simsion

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had. — Cassandra Clare

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. — Arthur C. Clarke

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. — Alexander Pope

I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry's is the best. But I'm happy to eat anybody's ice cream, really. As long as it's good. — Jerry Greenfield

Is it that the joy that comes from other people always risks sadness, because even when love doesn't fail, mortality enters in; is it that there is a place where sadness and joy are not distinct, where all emotion lies together, a sort of ocean into which the tributary streams of distinct emotions go, a faraway deep inside; is it that such sadness is only the side effect of art that describes the depths of our lives, and to see that described in all its potential for loneliness and pain is beautiful? — Rebecca Solnit

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one! — Tyne Daly

To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God;
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show — Bernard Of Clairvaux

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions. — Bashar Al-Assad

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. — Amar Bose

When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the experts, academic experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and doctors who had dealt with anthrax, doctors who had dealt with various forms of chemical and biological attack. — Rudy Giuliani

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart. — Howard G. Hendricks

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something! — Natalie Dormer

There is still quite a lot of life out there, but it is mostly very small. According to a wildlife census by an ecologist at the University of Illinois named V. E. Shelford, a typical ten-square-mile block of eastern American forest holds almost 300,000 mammals - 220,000 mice and other small rodents, 63,500 squirrels and chipmunks, 470 deer, 30 foxes, and 5 black bears. — Bill Bryson