Irta Member Quotes & Sayings

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere. — Daniel Waters

Trust in God, always take care of each other. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, "Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place. — Esther Duflo

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother. — Ayn Rand

Let no one be so mad as to believe that there is anything more pleasurable than history. — Nicetas Choniates

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important. — Cher

The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly. — Marty Rubin

The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself. — Kenneth Cain

The sword master stepping onto the fighting floor knows he will be facing powerful opponents. Not the physical adversaries whom he will fight (though those indeed serve as stand-ins for the enemy). The real enemy is inside himself. The monk in meditation knows this. So does the yogi. So do the film editor and the video-game creator and the software writer. — Steven Pressfield

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture. — Jeanette Winterson

And she knew this silent dance between them would be decided tonight, one way or the other. Either she tore down every one of her defenses and accepted his claim to the soul, or she walked away. Except she didn't think the latter was an option. — Nalini Singh