Iwonka Swenson Quotes

#1. I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Sydney Pollack

#2. It's OK to take care of yourself.

Matt Sorum

#3. May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.

Richard Dawkins

#5. There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.

Lenny Bruce

#6. If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It's about freedom.

Emma Watson

#7. Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal.

Mark T. Barnes

#8. To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

Gail Carson Levine

#9. How freeing it can be to realize that maybe we don't "need" everything we think we do-instead, what we need to do is scale back on our perceived needs.

Brook Noel

#10. Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

Donald Miller

#11. I've been described as impatient.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

#12. If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

Odette Annable

#13. ... it's not possible to truly become desensitized or accustomed to discrimination. It's something one endures.

Mary Lindsey

#14. My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

Frances Stark

#15. Maybe the reason nothing seems to be "fixing you" is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose; live accordingly.

Steve Maraboli