Itsel Quotes & Sayings

When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way. — Cynthia Ozick

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that? — Lori Wilde

His voice was like ice, cold and unforgiving, which was like hearing a different Draven altogether. Here he wasn't my Draven, soft and gentle. NO, here he was the Master, here he was the one in control ... here, he was a God! — Stephanie Hudson

If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty. — Paul Hoffman

We are not going to abandon Iraq. — Zalmay Khalilzad

The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means. — Nicholas Murray Butler

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel — Terry Pratchett

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope. — Pope Francis

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I should have known better. I shouldn't have let my guard down. That's been a big rule of mine for the last year or so. It's easy to get your heart broken or your shoes stolen. — Loni Flowers

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. — Henry Miller