Iridectomy Quotes & Sayings

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she's actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity. — Cheryl Strayed

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through. — Rod Stewart

Monastic people have long known--and I've experienced it in a small way myself--that the communal reciting, chanting, and singing of the psalms brings a unique sense of wholeness and order to their day, and even establishes the rhythm of their lives. — Kathleen Norris

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. — Susan Orlean

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. — Anton Chekhov

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought. — Asif Ali Zardari

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. — Hilaire Belloc

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well. — Sam Walton

Groupies are like chocolate ... A stupid man will think he can gorge himself on them with no consequences. But then he turns around and discovers they're just empty calories. They've just messed up his life when the only thing good for him was what he'd already been eating all along. - Nick Blackthorne — Lexxie Couper

Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person. — June Sarpong

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. — Edward Teller