Ixthmus Quotes & Sayings

I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You're not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you're stupid. You want to be stupid. But you're someone people could learn from. — M T Anderson

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. — Hermann Hesse

It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic. — Stieg Larsson

Since 1988, Iran has had a government-funded, regulated system for purchasing kidneys. — Peter Singer

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. — Laurence J. Peter

I know you're a step down from superhero, Hawk, but seriously?"
He grinned. "You think I'm a step down from superhero? — Kristen Ashley

God gives people the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he's designed for them. — Steven Furtick

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. — Francesco Petrarca

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises. — Henry David Thoreau

I know what I want. I will chase to it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. — Polybius

I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame. — Aubrey Plaza

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. — Norton Juster

The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do. — Daniel Beaty

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD. — Gavin Bryars