Irene Parlby Quotes

#1. People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again ... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

Sylvester Stallone

#2. Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

J.D. Greear

#3. Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.

Gunther Schuller

#4. The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

Irene Parlby

#5. In business, everyone has a different weight.

Nabil N. Jamal

#6. If politics mean ... the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people's children ... then it most assuredly is a woman's job as much as it is a man's job.

Irene Parlby

#7. For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

Pete Wentz

#8. The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#9. Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

Erica Jong

#10. Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.

Irene Parlby

#11. The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past.

Wilfred Thesiger

#12. [N]obody is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics can not relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the word [sic] has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude.

Muriel Barbery