Isobels Choice Quotes & Sayings

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there. — Olesya Rulin

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy. — Jack Nance

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety. — Margaret Mead

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one. — Helen Oyeyemi

Africa is in fact a more Christian continent than Europe. There are now, for example, more Anglicans in Nigeria than in England. — Niall Ferguson

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock. — Gail Collins

In New York, everything reminded me of my mother - every taxi, every street corner, every cloud that passed over the sun - but out in this hot mineral emptiness, it was as if she had never existed; I could not even imagine her spirit looking down on me. All trace of her seemed burned away in the thin desert air. — Donna Tartt

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp. — M.I.A.

You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you turned on the faucet and water still came out ... It was still good when you raised your arm for a cab and one came towards you out of the flow like magic. You did things that were supposed to end you and found they were only things that changed you. It was a disappointment and a revelation and a bereavement and a new thrilling nudity. It was the basic prosaic obscenity: You kept going. — Glen Duncan

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live. — Gordon R. Dickson

If the Lord were to appear this day in England as once in Palestine, He would not come in the halo of the painters or with that wintry shine of effeminate beauty, of sweet weakness, in which it is their helpless custom to represent Him. — George MacDonald

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life. — Margaret Craven

The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at. — Betty Friedan