Irmelin Quotes & Sayings

We dismantle the predator by countering its diatribes with our own nurturant truths. Predator: You never finish anything you start. Yourself: I finish many things. We dismantle the assaults of the natural predator by taking to heart and working with what is truthful in what the predator says and then discarding the rest. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need. — K.L. Toth

She settled into a crouch, wings pinned tightly to her back. "Come on then, angel boy." She kept her eyes on the muscles in his shoulders, saw the instant one tensed. A split second later, they were moving in a wicked, dangerous dance of steel and bodies. She'd never really had a chance to spar with Raphael like this, and damn if it wasn't the most fun she'd ever had. — Nalini Singh

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth. No lawyer does. We have all seen too many mistakes, too many bad results. A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote. And yet, despite all that, I do believe in the power of the ritual. I believe in the religious symbolism, the black robes, the marble-columned courthouses like Greek temples. When we hold a trial, we are saying a mass. We are praying together to do what is right and to be protected from danger, and that is worth doing whether or not our prayers are actually heard. — William Landay

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. — Charlie Sheen

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. — Baltasar Gracian

Love is the only duty that we know ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come. — Charles Caleb Colton

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life. — Gautama Buddha

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! — Camille Pissarro

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named. — Gregory Bateson

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over. — Hedi Slimane

I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot. — M T Anderson

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer — Nas