Istening Quotes & Sayings

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. — Jim Evans

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. — Sally Ride

Through uninhibited relationship with God you are empowered to function — Sunday Adelaja

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. — Michel De Montaigne

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. — Olivier Theyskens

Figure out what to do, then take a nap. — Adam Carolla

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. — Henri Poincare

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand? — Kiersten White

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. — Saint Augustine

For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to wake up and see that this whole time you've been gone, you've only been headed back to where you started. And I'll be there, waiting." He leans forward and kisses me once, feather-light, on the lips. "It's not like I'm not letting you go," he murmurs. "I'm just trusting you enough to come back. — Jodi Picoult

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed. — Joshua Reynolds

hope and fear are just different aspects of the same submission to history. Sitting and istening to the same story, one can hope for a happy ending while another fears a tragedy. Neither is free. — Anonymous

Istening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts. — Robert L. Wise