Ivy Westfall Quotes & Sayings

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero. — Arthur Laffer

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world. — Frederick Lenz

Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is," Anne Lamott once told me. "I wish it was accompanied by harp music so you could know that's what was happening, but for me it's that extra pause or that extra breath or that extra minute's patience against all odds." On that first trip to Ireland, grace - the kick-in-the-pants, clarifying, cosmic-pause-button kind of grace - didn't just have a harp. It had an entire soundtrack ... — Cathleen Falsani

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight ... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight. — Barbara Walters

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99) — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Raindrop gangbang. Little water-based whore. — Blaire Drake

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding. — Amy Engel

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman. — Mary MacLane

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind. — Gerald Durrell

I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered. — Amy Engel

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. — Max Von Sydow

But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out. — Jeffery Deaver

God gives us Love, something to love, God lends us. — Alfred Tennyson

What still doth waste, and wasting as this light,
Are my sad days unto eternal night. — Mary Wroth

I'm not a complete idiot, you know," I tell him. "I do think about alternatives if things were to change in Westfall."
Bishop swings his legs off the sofa and sits forward, facing me. "I have never, not for a single second, thought you were an idiot, Ivy."
"You listen to your father, too, don't you?" I ask him.
Bishop looks down at his clasped hands, then back up at me. "Sometimes I just think that because of who we are... the president's son and the founder's daughter..." He rolls his eyes, making me smile. "It's doubly important that we think for ourselves. We're not our parents. We don't have to agree with everything they stand for. — Amy Engel

Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven. — Ron Rash