Isnot Quotes & Sayings

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. — John Lydon

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
Star, to serve as a guiding point. — Edward Abbey

I have never found such a man! I have never found a man as generous as myself, as forgiving, as tolerant, as carefree, as reckless, as clean at heart. I forgive myself for every crime I have committed. I do it in the name of humanity. I know what it means to be human, the weakness and the strength of it. I suffer from this knowledge and I revel in it also. If I had the chance to be God I would reject it. If I had the chance to be a star I would reject it. The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. It embraces the whole universe. It includes the knowledge of death, which not even God enjoys. — Henry Miller

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. — Ion Tiriac

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well. — John Galsworthy

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that - either now or in the uncertain future - patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.
[The Eternal Value of Privacy, May 18, 2006] — Bruce Schneier

Stop wishing that the traffic wasn't so heavy, you live here, this is rush hour, deal with it. — Gudjon Bergmann

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around. — Steve Albini

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out. — Samuel Butler

Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things? — Camron Wright

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away. — Joseph Pulitzer

I need to deny them the power to control me. I need to know I am stronger than they are. — Veronica Roth

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) — Aleister Crowley

[ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared. — Elizabeth I

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — Maya Angelou

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. — Joichi Ito

Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming.
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there. — Rebecca Rasmussen

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able. — Robert Louis Stevenson