Istesem Quotes & Sayings

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time! — Douglas Feaver

My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric. That's exactly what she says: telluric — Italo Calvino

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. — Aristotle.

July 15, 1991

Nita: My mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. "Don't you see what's going on in this house?" To this day, if somehow even in jest raises their hand to me, I will do this (raises hands to protect face and cowers) I cringe. Then they look at me like, what's your probem? You don't get that from a great childhood. — Sarah E. Olson

The words hung in the air like dense weighted objects
waiting to crash. Her breath hung with it. He should have frozen, pushed her away, anything but what he did.
He kissed her gently on the top of her head.
Tears welled in her eyes, and she burrowed closer into the safety of all that warm skin. He was naked, yet she was the one completely and utterly exposed. — Kate Meader

Security sets a premium on feebleness. — H.G.Wells

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else. — Rahul Dravid

In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together. — Ron Galella

Many introverts have so much pain associated with intimacy that we are afraid to get close. There is the pain of being emotionally overwhelmed. The pain of moving too quickly. The pain of being misunderstood and feeling like the bad guy all the time. Then, of course, there is the pain of knowing that we are causing someone else pain simply by fulfilling our innate needs. Our partner feels our need for space as a slap in the face. Our lack of energy is interpreted as a lack of love. All of these pain associations make us reluctant to get close, no matter how much we say we want a meaningful relationship. — Michaela Chung

Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire. — Octavia Spencer

Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. — Nido R. Qubein

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. — Karin Slaughter

Flee from every kind of sexual sin. — Sunday Adelaja

cubbies together. She was a bit older, and always had to be — M.L. Stedman