Izel Jenkins Quotes & Sayings

Lord Maccon was Scottish-big; this gentleman was only English-big - there was a distinct difference. — Gail Carriger

It feels a bit like high school, only with guns and uniforms, and instead of learning trigonometry or North American history, we learn better ways to kill people and blow up their stuff. — Marko Kloos

So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence. — Ursula K. Le Guin

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. — Dorothy Gilman

You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies. — Yitzhak Rabin

Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler. — Genghis Khan

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie. — Isla Fisher

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. — Joan Halifax

The Excellence Manifesto #1

I pledge myself to patience.
I pledge myself to boldness.
I pledge myself to kindness.
I pledge myself to prudence.
I pledge myself to cheerfulness.
I pledge myself to genuineness.
I pledge myself to goodness.

I commit to skilfulness.
I commit to diligence.
I commit to resourcefulness.
I commit to excellence.
I commit to perseverance.
I commit to brilliance.
I commit to transcendence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits. — Gerhard Richter

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights. — Fran Lebowitz

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. — Matthew Henry

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this. — Joseph Smith Jr.

A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;"
Cromwell of Wriothesley — Hilary Mantel

In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer. — Ron Kind