Ioco Quotes & Sayings

There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost; and to lose My love, My child, is to lose what cannot be regained. For a loving heart is a vessel of light and mercy. It is a receptacle into which I pour My grace. It is untarnished by avarice and indifferent to the call of worldly ambition. — Frances J Roberts

I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility. — Ronald Reagan

Every day, let our words blossom lotus in some one's heart. — Amit Ray

Innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates. — Jo Nesbo

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. — Muhammad Ali

Soon, however, it wasn't a matter of ioco or practice. In that place where they threw out beasts and garbage a lot of human blood was shed. It seems that the game of throwing the prete was invented there, the stone — Elena Ferrante

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. — Albert Einstein

Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. — William Fritz

Time was not a line, but an awareness. I was no longer a body, but a series of pieces whistling as they bonded. I felt every cell within me. I could count them, name them, kill them, and resurrect them. Within the core, I was a tower made of fossil fragments. I could be disassembled and reassembled. If only someone knew the correct pressure point, I would turn into a pile of elements running off to find another bond, like seasonal farmhands journeying from East to West. — Jaroslav Kalfar

Window. I felt anxious and — Kathy Reichs

She looked over the bins of tinselly junk and felt despair, trying to find one single thing that wouldn't fall apart before you got it home. Maybe her father was lucky to die young with his pride of craftsmanship intact. What would he make of this world? Realistically, it probably wasn't slave children, but there had to be armies of factory workers making this slapdash stuff, underpaid people cranking out things for underpaid people to buy and use up, living their lives mostly to cancel each other out. — Barbara Kingsolver

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way ... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story - amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific. — Henry Gee

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't. — Henry Ward Beecher