Izly Quotes & Sayings

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure. — Gail Z. Martin

It doesn't matter that you've broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come. — Jalaluddin Rumi

In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go. — Jeanette Winterson

Right you guessed the rising morrow
And scorned to tread the mire you must:
Dust's your wages, son of sorrow,
But men may come to worse than dust.
Souls undone, undoing others,-
Long time since the tale began.
You would not live to wrong your brothers:
Oh lad, you died as fits a man. — A.E. Housman

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast. — Kami Garcia

Today I ask you in the name of Christ and the Church, never tire of being merciful. — Pope Francis

The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution. — Ian Caldwell

You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions. — Richard Rorty

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. — Peter Stuyvesant

I left Los Angeles on 3 January and arrived in Sydney fourteen hours later on 5 January. For me there was no 4 January. None at all. Where it went exactly I couldn't tell you. All I know is that for one twenty-four-hour period in the history of Earth, it appears I had no being. I find that a little uncanny, to say the least. I mean to say, if you were browsing through your ticket folder and you saw a notice that said: 'Passengers are advised that on some crossings twenty-four-hour loss of existence may occur — Bill Bryson

It's interesting the fact that when you are bored times passes slow, when you are interested it passes fast. — Deyth Banger

Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them. — Dave Thomas

Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this. — Anne Lamott