Iwamasa Dun Quotes & Sayings

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him. — Mary Kingsley

While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive. — Dennis Prager

I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Oh, Jay, close your eyes.
With open eyes, you can see only what is in front of you;
Close your eyes, and you can see everything.
I am here, deep in your heart. — Ilchi Lee

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky. — Apolo Ohno

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. — Marianne Williamson

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person. — Adam Davidson

It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than mind; not as when youth discovers the one to be beloved, but rather as when the student, long wandering after the clew to some truth in science, sees it glimmer dimly before him, to beckon, to recede, to allure, and to wane again. She fell at last into unquiet slumber, vexed by deformed, fleeting, shapeless phantoms; and, waking, as the sun, through a veil of hazy cloud, glinted with a sickly ray across the casement, she heard her father settled back betimes to his one pursuit, and calling forth from his Familiar a low mournful strain, like a dirge over the dead. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities. — Tony Robbins

Worries die away before a man who asserts himself. — Baltasar Gracian

He was a handsome man, several inches over six feet, green-eyed, with dark chestnut hair and features that bore the patrician stamp of aristocratic breeding. She put his age at just past thirty but had formed no opinion of him as a person. — Grace Burrowes

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us. — David Krumholtz

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she'd rather die than go back to a man she didn't love. — Brenna Yovanoff

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive. — Rebekah Brooks