Quotes About Ias

#1. Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.

Kuldip Nayar

#3. I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.

Raquel Welch

#4. The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.

Tim Kreider

#5. Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Ethan Hawke

#6. Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.

Nostradamus

#7. Easy does it is what I'm looking for,

Elaine Stritch

#8. Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Pamela Morris

#9. It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

Tove Jansson

#10. Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

Barbara Kingsolver