Ioryogi Quotes & Sayings

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all. — H.L. Mencken

There's something about God that makes us want to shout, sing, laugh, dance, be still, and rest our heads on His lap
as we gaze into His beautiful eyes - all at the same time.

There's something about God that leaves us speechless - we simply don't know what to say. We don't know what to do.
To delight in Him - to worship Him - that's all we can. That's all we need to.

There's something about God - our souls just can't get enough. — Scott Boucher

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person. — Brene Brown

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ... — Iannis Xenakis

I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out — Edith Grossman

She suspected if they looked in Gamache's bedside table, they'd find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette. — Louise Penny

It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance. — Ted Cruz

If I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more. — Jules Renard

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future — Ayi Kwei Armah

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down. — Louise Erdrich

A woman's severed leg had been crammed sideways in the box, the toes of the foot bent back to fit. — Robert Galbraith

The greatest response to a negative person is to be a positive person — Suki Waterhouse

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism. — George Meyer