Ireta Gasner Quotes & Sayings

Ah, mon cher, we are odd, wretched creatures, and if we merely look back over our lives, there's no lack of occasions to amaze and horrify ourselves. Just try. — Albert Camus

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

Avalanche of foreigners. The house was suddenly filled with — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As a church member, I am responsible for encouraging and leading my entire family to worship together in the church. — Thom S. Rainer

You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight. — Debra Messing

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions. — Jared Brock

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed. — Jaggi Vasudev

Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do. — Simon Sinek

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius. — Ron Kaufman

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information — George W. Bush

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. — Buddy Hackett

Hinduism - indeed, most eastern religions - tells us that striving, even striving for happiness, is self-defeating. The moment you try to improve yourself, you've failed. Game over. Yet just lie there like a zombie and you lose, too. What to do? — Eric Weiner

We basically used oil and aquifer water to temporarily boost the carrying capacity of the land, all for economic growth demanded by Wall Street investors. It's a crazy system that only makes sense when you foist all the costs onto taxpayers in the form of crop subsidies that benefit agribusiness, and defense spending to secure fossil fuels. We're basically paying for corporations to seize control of the food supply and dictate to us the terms under which we live. — Daniel Suarez

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe some know it" His father eyed him and smiled "When they walk into a party and everyone's black, they know it. Or when they get caught in Harlem after nightfall, they know it. But otherwise ... — Jacqueline Woodson