Irefully Quotes & Sayings

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth. — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in the history of their country where the law provided the Government to do things which were not right. — Edward Snowden

Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being. — Benjamin Clementine

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn't believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs. — Patricia Briggs

Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says. — Victor Lodato

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense. — Paul Scheer

I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them. — Scott Walker

The things you think are your weakness are often really your strengths. The things you think are your strengths are what trip you up. Everything you take seriously doesn't matter in the end. Everything important in your life is the stuff you're not even noticing right now. And ... you really don't have to worry so much. Everything's going to be fine. — Suzanne Harper

You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect. — Robert De Niro

No.
Chaol thought he had not heard it, the word that cleaved through the air just before the guard's sword did.
One blow from that mighty sword.
That was all it took to sever Sorscha's head.
The scream that erupted out of Dorian was the worst sound that Chaol had ever heard.
Worse even than the wet, heavy thud of her head hitting the red marble.
Aedion began roaring - roaring and cursing at the king, thrashing against his chains, but the guards hauled him away, and Chaol was too stunned to do anything other than watch the rest of Sorscha's body topple to the ground. And then Dorian, still screaming, was scrambling through the blood toward it - toward her head, as if he could put it back.
As if he could piece her together. — Sarah J. Maas

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won. — Mike Ditka

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. — Mikhail Botvinnik