Book Of Ivy Quotes

#1. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Amy Engel

#2. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

Melina Marchetta

#4. I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#5. But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

Amy Engel

#6. Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

Jonny Lang

#7. Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

Jonathan Heatt

#8. I know the days can get long if you don't have a purpose.

Amy Engel

#9. I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

#10. He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond

Stephenie Meyer

#11. Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.

Ernest J. Gaines

#12. Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

Haidji

#13. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. With positive attitude, you can overcome any problem.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Kellyn Roth

#16. I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.

Steven Millhauser

#17. How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Amy Engel

#18. I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Amy Engel

#19. An elaborate watch may deserve more for a second-hand look

Priyavrat Thareja

#20. Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#21. I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

Gerard Way

#22. The greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

Marah Ellis Ryan

#23. Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question.

Amy Engel

#24. My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

Amy Engel

#25. I doubt you've been idle these last twenty-four hours, so tell me what I need to know and who I might have to kill to protect her.

Vanessa Kelly

#26. I'm against abortion.

Charles Evers

#27. Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

Amy Engel

#28. You're easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

Amy Engel