Islotes Quotes & Sayings

Love is Fallen ... Like *FALLEN* ANGELS ... — Lauren Kate

There was once upon a time a census officer who had to record the names of all householders in a certain Welsh village. The first that he questioned was called William Williams; so were the second, third, fourth.... At last he said to himself: 'This is tedious; evidently they are all called William Williams. I shall put them down so and take a holiday'. But he was wrong; there was just one whose name was John Jones. This shows that we may go astray if we trust too implicitly to induction by simple enumeration. — Bertrand Russell

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. — John Piper

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. — Matt Stone

Everyone has had, at a given moment, an extraordinary experience which will be for him, because of the memory of it he preserves, the crucial obstacle to his inner metamorphosis. — Emil Cioran

I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky. — Flannery O'Connor

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both. — Christopher Hitchens

As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone. — Madeline Miller

If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life. — Audrey Conn

Here the voice told him truthfully what sort of wife he had wedded, and what she was doing in his absence. — Rudyard Kipling

Does it hurt? What is it?"
"It's not food poisoning, it's not a hazard to public health."
"What is it?"
"It's just an ache you've given me. I'll live. But only with you. — Iain S. Thomas

Because lower-back pain afflicts more than three-quarters of all Americans at some point, the sit-up is fairly universally contraindicated. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country. — Joachim De Posada