Ivouk Quotes & Sayings

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years. — Bear Grylls

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Imagination shows an ability to lie, to pretend the world is different than it is. — Gemma Malley

No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money. — Steven T. Byington

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives — Jerry Bridges

Lillian walked into every room as if she owned it. She walked across this one as if she owned it but was slightly horrified to find herself there, like a queen in a basement. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Only the impossible is worth the effort. — Jeanette Winterson

I had no one. No one to talk to, at least that is how I felt. No one to hold on to, or who would hold tightly back. No one to tell me everything was going to be alright. No one to say, yes, me too, I know how you feel - No one. — Jeannie Davide-Rivera

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in. — Merrill Markoe

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. — John Fahey

I'm not sure it is possible to articulate grief through language. You can say, I was so sad I thought my bones would collapse. I thought I would die. But language always falls short of the body when it comes to the intensity of corporeal experience. The best we can do is bring language in relationship to corporeal experience-bring words close to the body-as close as possible. Close enough to shatter them. Or close enough to knock a body out. To bring language close to the intensity of experiences like love or death or grief or pain is to push on the affect of language. Its sounds and grunts and ecstatic noises. The ritual sense of language. Or the cry. — Lidia Yuknavitch

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. — James Baldwin

Cinders. Embers. Ashes. — Marissa Meyer

It's not who you know, it's who you sleep with. — Lois Greiman