Ioop Quotes & Sayings

Mastema prefers absolutes. He wants fences on the world and everything in its place, neat and tidy as a churchyard garden. God is not like that. God is boundless. For all his wisdom, Mastema cannot comprehend Yahweh's need for surprises. An omniscient Being would naturally yearn for things beyond His control, futures He could not see, wills He could influence but not command. Strange, yes. It is odd when the puppeteer desires his wooden slaves to cut their strings, yet that is exactly what He did when he granted humans free will. — Kirby Crow

It is no good thinking about how life will get better once you have a new television or a new job. You must stop hoping for change. You must simply be it. — Rachel Joyce

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor. — Mathieu Amalric

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. — Trey Parker

Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music. — John Eliot Gardiner

The further I get, the further I want to go — Nas

Strength and struggle travel together. — Spencer W. Kimball

Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue — Andy Biersack

Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis. — Seth Klarman

Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free. — John Bolton

So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed. — Euripides

I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color. — Stanley Karnow

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith. — Mahatma Gandhi