Iowans Without Power Quotes & Sayings

Burke laughed, but there wasn't any humor in his voice. Romeo and Juliet died, son. Consider that all the answer you need. — Joanna Wylde

New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain. — Bill Maher

She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids. — Anne Lamott

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have. — Harriet Martineau

It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here ... — Danielle Steel

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. — Thomas Carlyle

Like I said - I wasn't stupid. Rough around the edges maybe, definitely a little perverted at times, but never stupid. I was a survivor. I'd damn well survive this. — Elle Jasper

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. — Richard J. Foster

There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment. — Ken Keyes Jr.

The Crucified One is God's standing solidarity with the suffering, the tragedy, and the disaster of all time, and God's promise that it will not have the final word. The Risen One is God's final word about the universe and what God plans to do with all suffering. — Richard Rohr

People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation - they're — Gillian Flynn

I regard each sentence as a little wheel ... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that. — Roald Dahl

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy. — Nicole Polizzi