Iola Quotes & Sayings

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it. — Bryant McGill

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon. — George Carlin

They didn't dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward. — Morgan Matson

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the — Lisa Wingate

She lays her tired head on my shoulder and looks through the shell with me, into the great mystery. I think again that heaven must be like this place, and I say that to Isabelle. I wonder, When she is in heaven and I am not, how far away will she be? "It's just another journey," she whispers. . . I thought of my mother, of how desperately I wanted her to be here a little longer, a lot longer, forever. Sometimes it seemed that I should be able to change things, to alter the course of events, just by wanting it badly enough. But I couldn't. Iola's observations said as much. We, in our humanness, cannot help but foolishly desire eternity in this life. — Lisa Wingate

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private. — Joyce Meyer

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way? — Richard Dawkins

In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win ... Both must win! — Nabil N. Jamal

{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let's latte. — Craig Robertson

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. — George Washington

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside, she say. — Lisa Wingate

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. — Dr. Dre

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.
That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it. — Mark Twain

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother. — Bonnie Bedelia