Iyou Quotes & Sayings

If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to dip your oar into sentiment's stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is not an easy place to live.

And when its difficulties intensify, you find yourself longing to leave that world and dwell in some easier one--and then, when you understand at last that difficulties will dog you wherever you may live, this is when poetry and art are born. — Soseki Natsume

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I. — Phil Ochs

Invisibility, actually, was something he was pretty good at. He'd perfected it over the past twelve years. — Jodi Picoult

The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul ... — Raffaella Barker

I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war. — Pierce Brown

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. — Franz Kafka

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit. — Mikhail Bakunin

He therefore proceeded to build a bridge a little above the place where he had crossed before. As the method of construction was familiar to the soldiers from the previous occasion, they were able by energetic efforts to complete the task in a few days. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

That sounds perfectly reasonable ... he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure. — Douglas Adams

The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody. — Tim Dorsey

None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it. — Holly Black

When you get drunk you don't tear anything apart except yourself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon. — Goran Ivanisevic

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. — Marlon Brando

Any business transaction - actually any life transaction - is negotiated by how you are making the other person feel. — Stephanie Danler