Isme Journal Quotes & Sayings

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

This is only the beginning. Many die, many kill their bodies and souls, but they cannot kill the justice of God, even they cannot kill the eternal spirit. From their very degradation that spirit will rise up to demand of the world compassion and justice — Radclyffe Hall

It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is still standing, a miracle we thrill to every day. But if the beauty of Paris has survived wars, how extraordinary that it can do nothing against the pickaxes of the Parisians themselves when they make up their minds to demolish something, nor against the vagaries of their architects left to their own devices! — Julien Green

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest. — Henry Suso

To enlighten your life, see beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Instead of asking youself how you can change that aspect of you, maybe you should be asking yourself why you were created that way. For what purpose do you exist the way that you are? — Amy A. Bartol

Then I told him, 'Injustice, Poverty and Discrimination is faced by a lot of Indians, and also majority, the fact is that if you "Minority" stop thinking yourself as a part of "Minority" and start thinking as the part of India, and proceed together for it's good, then only "Minority" and majority would progress altogether. — Shaikh Ashraf

The commentary came from millions of idiots on the Internet. — Neal Stephenson

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy. — Alexander Alekhine

It was the best night ever.
And they hadn't talked about any of it since. — Megan Abbott

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. — Saadi

Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen. — Bill Murray