Modest Proposal Ironic Quotes & Sayings

She needed to scream two little words. But Jo didn't surrender; she Hulk-smashed. She squeezed until things broke. — Kresley Cole

It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers. — Mark Batterson

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love. — Fiona Gubelmann

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. — Thomas Huxley

He alone fails who gives up and lies down. — Ralph Waldo Trine

She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to live up to what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and hard to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself and others, she began to smile more and enjoy life. — Salle Merrill Redfield

You're living in a delusion based on your legendary father. — Sergio Martinez

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy — Seth Klarman

The woman who looks back at me from my bathroom mirror is sliding toward her mid-fifties. She'd better be careful- she's getting old.
I myself am about thirty. I've been thirty for about twenty-three years now. — Cheryl Peck

They would always be here, she realized. Always. Day in, day out. They had lives of their own, lives that would be the same day after day into perpetuity, and yet they'd chosen to make themselves into what was essentially the furniture of other people's realities. These, she thought, were people without dreams, and she wondered what had happened to cut those dreams out and leave them hollow carriers of nothing but a feeble need to see something more in the mindless kick of a ball down the field. She'd once thought it was imaginary value, the way they watched this. But it wasn't imaginary. It was real, when it was the only thing that let them feel like there was still some bright spark left in them. That had value, if only to them. That meant something. — Cole McCade

This is what music is to me. I can't see it. But it's everywhere. It's in the traffic when I'm downtown. It's in the humming of a furnace as it fights to keep your house warm. It's in the jingle of a dog's collar as he prances into a room with his favorite toy. And it's in the laughter of a child as she plays with her toys. It's everywhere. And although I can't see it, I feel it throughout my body. And all I want to do is make more music. — Jeremy Asher

For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible. — Erol Alkan

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. — Reba McEntire