Ivari Life Quotes & Sayings

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction. — Zadie Smith

I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together. — Melissa De La Cruz

It is always difficult, the transition from noisy refusal to humble acceptance. — Zoe Heller

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. — Anna Brownell Jameson

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. — William Faulkner

Implementation of a knowledge based economy is a significant precondition for environmental and social sustainability. — Eraldo Banovac

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood. — Robert M. Price

We must look at ourselves with the strictest eyes. — Tsutomu Ohshima

They didn't understand, it not being directed at them, what that smile could do. The power of it. It was like every time he smiled he'd opened a chest of treasure and said, All this is yours. — Kristen Ashley

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life. — Alain Robert

Inside each man, though he did not know it, nor ever considered it, was the image of the woman he someday must love. Whether she was composed of all the music he had ever heard or all the trees he had ever seen or all the friends of his childhood, certainly no one could tell. Whether the eyes were his mother's, and the chin that of a girl cousin swimming in a summer lake twenty-five years ago, this was unknowable also. But most men carried this image, like a locket, like a pearl-cameo, in their head a lifetime, taking it out only rarely, taking it never, after marriage, afraid then to compare it to the reality. And most men never saw the woman they would love anywhere, in the dark theatre, in a book, or passing on the street. They saw her only after midnight when the city was asleep and the pillow was cool under their heads. And she was a composite of all dreams and all women and every moonlit night since the calendar began. — Ray Bradbury

[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds. — John Climacus

In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than unites, humanity. — Jason E. Marshall

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual. — Tom Jaine

I fold my laundry discretely, putting my jeans and tops on anything I don't want the guys to see. I sneak a look at Malone every once in a while, and each time I do, he seems to know. Blushing becomes my permanent facial state. I pretend to watch the game, though the Sox could have all been murdered and left disemboweled on the field for all the attention I truly pay. — Kristan Higgins