Ishmaels People Quotes & Sayings

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered. — Bill Hicks

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. — Horace

People think I'm more wild than I am ... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends. — Iggy Azalea

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence. — Alister E. McGrath

I seldom ate out, both for reasons of economy and because I feared someone might try to speak to me. — Jordan L. Hawk

I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health. — Laura Benanti

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect. — Paul Auster

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. — Junipero Serra

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol. — Suzanne Collins

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. — Yann Martel

What was surprising
and would largely be forgotten as time went on
was how well Adams had done. Despite the malicious attacks on him, the furor over the Alien and Sedition Acts, unpopular taxes, betrayals by his own cabinet, the disarray of the Federalists, and the final treachery of Hamilton, he had, in fact, come very close to winning in the electoral count. With a difference of only 250 votes in New York City, Adams would have won an electoral count of 71 to 61. So another of the ironies of 1800 was that Jefferson, the apostle of agrarian America who loathed cities, owed his ultimate political triumph to New York. — David McCullough

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round. — Samuel Butler