Itseng Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react. — Jodi Picoult

Not infrequently, parents fail to help children grasp their responsibility for a community. Often we as parents don't convey to our children that they have obligations to small communities like a sports team or a school choir or a dance troupe. How many of us ever simply mention to our children that a school is not just a place to learn but a community, or that a neighborhood is a community that carries obligations? — Richard Weissbourd

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne

Sharing food is a metaphor for all giving. When we offer someone food, we are not just giving that person something to eat; we are giving far more. We give strength, health, beauty, clarity of mind, and even life, because none of those things would be possible without food. So when we feed another, this is what we are offering: the substance of life itself. — Sharon Salzberg

I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn. — Richard Branson

We make our own music.
We paint our own future. — A.P. Sweet

I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America. — William Monahan

In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be found in the world, existing only in imagination, and on account of her they are jealous of the surrounding air, of the laws of nature, of the millennia that went by before her. — Boris Pasternak

I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars. — Nicole Lyons

You could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence ... — Garrett McCoy

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. — Elizabeth Edwards

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. — Herbie Hancock

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool. — Aimee Bender