Irinas Quotes & Sayings

When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window. — Charles Dickens

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another. — George Bernard Shaw

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty. — Matt Chandler

The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see our Zooey again. — J.D. Salinger

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make. — Jane Powell

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.
The Twenty-first Voyage — Stanislaw Lem

Nama'rie! Nai hiruvalye Valimar.
Nai elye hiruva. Namarie!

Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar. Maybe even thou shalt find it.
Farewell! — Lady Galadriel

Wuxi Engineering Complex wasn't detailed by a team, it was detailed by one woman, using, of course, feedback from the departments that would be using the building." I gape. "Exactly," she says, smiling. "A team would not have constructed the building as a unit, but as a series of connected, but compromised and adjusted, ideas." "It can't be done. It had to have taken years." "It did take over two years, but it can be done. — Maureen F. McHugh

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money. — Paul Bremer

A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not. — Tao Lin

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent. — Zhuangzi