Ismenia Gonzalez Quotes & Sayings

Look at the way you and I have ended up. I renounced and abandoned the world in order to be here and devote myself entirely to the service of Christ far away from people. And now you return to me after embracing Islam, clad in nothing but tunic and waist-cloth, and with nothing to your name but a staff to walk on. Tell me, for Heaven's sake: What is the difference between us? Is not your renunciation of the world the same as mine? And, my dear: Is it not the same rejection of the state of the world and its inhabitants that has impelled both of us to leave everything behind, realizing as we do that there is no hope to be found in this world and that there is nothing left for us but the love of God? — Salwa Bakr

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know? — Rock Hudson

Will you shut up?! God, I can't get you guys to say crap half the time I try to actually say something worth saying, one of you interrupts me. So shut up! — Katie McGarry

Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic. — Garth Nix

It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant. — R.K. Lilley

Sam: Mordor. The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer, and the one place we're trying to get to. It's just where we can't get. Let's face it, Mr. Frodo, we're lost. I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way.
Frodo: He didn't mean for a lot of things to happen, Sam ... but they did. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The simplicity of it filled her with warmth. They had looked for her, and found her; she wasn't alone, after all. — Laini Taylor

The thought of this could sometimes weigh me down because I wanted so much to be someone. I wanted so much to be special. — Karl Ove Knausgard

A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves. — Patton Oswalt

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier. — Will Self

Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success. — Tom Thibodeau

Because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what it is that has to be changed. — Alexander McCall Smith

We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.'
We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials. — Bruce Sterling

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. — Stephen Hawking