Vankov Ivana Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice. — Helen Oyeyemi

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. — Alexandra Penney

I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain. — Linda McMahon

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen ... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing. — Max Schmeling

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL — Julie Otsuka

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions. — Howard Zinn

How could anyone ever be happy in a life like this? he thought. Then, How could anyone be evil enough to do this to us? He understood more than ever the passion the Gladers felt for finding their way out of the Maze. It wasn't just a matter of escape. For the first time, he felt a hunger to get revenge on the people responsible for sending him there. — James Dashner

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. — John Adams

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. — Andrew Tobias

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. — Anne Enright

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp

During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture. His — Oscar Wilde

I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control. — Sachin Tendulkar

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court. — Andy Roddick