Isriuns Quotes & Sayings

Neeporlax presented something of a contrast. — Iain M. Banks

On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again. — Shlomo Carlebach

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them. — Shania Twain

...trying to think of every good thing he had inside himself that he could transfer into the creature. Things like the wisdom he had gained since coming to Artime, and the experience of deepest sorrow, which can only come from deepest love. — Lisa McMann

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. — George Eliot

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work. — Joe Wright

Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall. — Ambrose Bierce

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through. — Drew Barrymore

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free. — Veronica Roth

When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience — Albert Bandura

He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life. — Philippa Gregory

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. — Bill Cosby

If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter. — Guy Kawasaki