Wrenching Iron Quotes & Sayings

The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be — Todd Stocker

paradise for people who look as if they have just stepped out of a Barbour catalogue. — Bill Bryson

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid. — Juicy J

She cannot help but see a lifespan as a journey, indeed as a pilgrimage. This isn't fashionable these days, but it's her way of seeing. A life has a destination, an ending, a last saying. She is perplexed and exercised by the way that now, in the twenty-first century, we seem to be inventing innumerable ways of postponing the sense of arrival, the sense of arriving at a proper ending. Her inspections of evolving models of residential care and care homes for the elderly have made her aware of the infinitely clever and complex and inhumane delays and devices we create to avoid and deny death, to avoid fulfilling our destiny and arriving at our destination. And the result, in so many cases, has been that we arrive there not in good spirits, as we say our last farewells and greet the afterlife, but senseless, incontinent, demented, medicated into amnesia, aphasia, indignity. — Margaret Drabble

I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. — John Rhys-Davies

Aging offers certain rewards that youth cannot. It represents the culmination of our efforts in building self-knowledge, families, friendships, careers, and the sense of self that comes from facing whatever adversity we may have encountered. Aging is to be honored. Youth certainly has its own set of rewards, but to dwell on them to the exclusion of those that come later in life causes a stagnation of the self. It keeps us from experiencing an appreciation of living an entire (ital) life, not just the beginning. When we're really old we will likely measure our lives by how well we loved, how well we were loved, and by what we created, whether that be family, work, art, or friendships. Even if we have chosen to have them, we will probably not measure our lives collagen injection by collagen injection. — Joyce T. McFadden

I've been through so many different political races. — Mary Fallin

[F]irst of all, be what you are. — Georges Bernanos

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them. — Tom Six

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. — Joseph Addison

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years. — Jeremy Corbyn

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. — Tacitus

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it. — Steve Mariucci

Life is not meant to be an open-book test. — Alyson Noel

Lupa and her wolves are trying to slow them down, but this force is too strong even for them. The enemy will be here soon - by the Feast of Fortuna — Rick Riordan