Izabela Rose Quotes & Sayings

Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon , where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Life is a book. Read it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka. — Edwin Arthur Hall

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves. — Warren Buffett

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile. — Mary MacLane

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences. — John C. Maxwell

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence. — Leonard Bernstein

(mother) She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin

In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden. — Richard Engel

We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them! — Sam Torrance

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business. — Zicheng Hong

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. — Donal Logue

This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith. — Dylan Thomas

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician. — Nicola Sturgeon

I learned little else about what masculinity required of me other than drinking beer and screaming at a woman when she screamed at you. In the end, the only lesson that took was that you can't depend on people. "I learned that men will disappear at the drop of a hat," Lindsay [his half-sister] once said. "They don't care about their kids; they don't provide; they just disappear, and it's not that hard to make them go. — J.D. Vance