Restituta Irene Quotes

#1. Irene closed her book and stared at the older Van Holtz.
"I don't dislike him. But that was recent. I used to not like him but he's been very kind since I've been here. So now I like him. I'd almost say we are friendly ... but perhaps that's too big a leap at this stage."
He gave a soft laugh. "I see. Are you always this ... uh ... "
"Brutally honest?"
"I was going to say direct, but brutally honest works as well."
"Yes. I am. And I know - it's a character flaw."
"Not at all. I love honest people."
"Everyone says that ... until I say something they don't like. Then I'm a bitch. #Quote by Shelly Laurenston

#2. Important events - whether serious, happy or unfortunate - do not change a man's soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a strong gust of wind reveals the true shape of a tree when it blows off all its leaves. Such events highlight what is hidden in the shadows, they nudge the spirit towards a place where it can flourish. #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#3. I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives ... and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country ... But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House. #Quote by Irene Dunne

#4. We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by. #Quote by John Harrison

#5. I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera. #Quote by Irene Cara

#6. Whenever you don't understand what's happening in your life, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and trust that it's part of God's plan for you. #Quote by Irene Hannon

#7. I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth. #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#8. I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'. #Quote by Channing Tatum

#9. When you're twenty, love is like a fever, it makes you almost delirious. When it's over you can hardly remember how it happened ... Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns itself out. #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#10. As she'd hoped, the two of them were the sole occupants of this stretch of windswept beach. Sipping the steaming liquid, she let the familiar peace seep into her soul. The cerulean water sparkled in the morning sun, as if sprinkled with diamonds, and she drew in a cleansing breath of the tangy salt air. She watched a sandpiper play tag with the surf. Listed to the caw of a gull high overhead and the muted thunder of the breaking waves. Felt the breeze caress her cheek. #Quote by Irene Hannon

#11. I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is. #Quote by Irene Dunne

#12. Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top. #Quote by Irene Rosenfeld

#13. They look so tired, so hot!" everyone kept saying, but not one of them thought to open their doors, to invite one of these wretches inside, to welcome them into the shady bits of heaven that the refugees could glimpse behind the houses, where wooden benches nestled in arbours amid redcurrant bushes and roses. There were just too many of them. Too many weary, pale faces, dripping with sweat, too many wailing children, too many trembling lips asking, "Do you know where we could get a room? A bed?" … "Would you tell us where we could find a restaurant, please, Madame?" It prevented the townspeople from being charitable. There was nothing human left in this miserable mob; they were like a herd of frightened animals. Their crumpled clothes, crazed faces, hoarse voices, everything about them made them look peculiarly alike, so you couldn't tell them apart. #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#14. So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end. #Quote by Irene Dunne

#15. What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork. #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#16. Dear Julie:
If I didn't feel that there is some good in your story, I wouldn't take the time to write a criticism of it. But there is some good in it, some points that make me feel that if you expend the effort(Look who's talking about expending the effort, I couldn't help thinking) you may well achieve your very worthy ambition.
First of all, you have an ear for cadence. Your sentences flow rather smoothly, and the continuity of your paragraphs is quite good.
Secondly, your imagery is sharp and clear-cut. I could smell that dank, rat-infested attic and I was more than a little in love with your pretty heroine by the time she emerged from her third paragraph. Furthermore, you occasionally achieve poetic effects which are pleasing.
But, my darling niece, your villains have nothing but venom in their souls, and your sympathetic characters are ready to step right off into Paradise without one spot to tarnish their purity. People aren't like that, Julie. Take a look around you.
Again, all your colors, your moods, your nusances, are essentially feminine, and it just doesn't ring true to be told that a man is responsible for them. No, Julie, it will be a long time before you speak and think and feel like an anguished old German musician of eighty! And, after all, what do you know about the problems of musical composition, or the life of an impoverised German laborer such as the landlord in his nineteenth-century environment? And how much do you know about s #Quote by Irene Hunt

#17. Irene didn't dignify his question with an answer. Besides, he'd learn better. A Librarian's mission to seek out books for the Library developed, after a few years, into an urge to find out everything that was going on around one. It wasn't even a personal curiosity. It was a simple, impersonal, uncontrollable need to know. One came to terms with it. She lifted off the Canopic jar's stylized jackal-head lid. 'There's something in here,' she reported. #Quote by Genevieve Cogman

#18. Some people are jewels in the wrong setting. #Quote by Sophie Irene Loeb

#19. Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin. #Quote by Irene Khan

#20. we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome #Quote by Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez

#21. My God! What is this country doing to me? Because it has rejected me, let us consider it coldly, let us watch it lose the honour and its life. #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#22. When you are submitted and committed to the Lord, you will look forward to Jesus coming back, and not even an earthquake or Hurricane Irene will be able to shake you from the love of Christ. #Quote by Monica Johnson

#23. it's not about being perfect, it's about being tough for the things that can't be perfect. #Quote by Irene Dionaldo

#24. When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#25. I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America. #Quote by Irene Rosenfeld

#26. trailer and found Ray in his mother's bedroom. "How come you're hanging #Quote by Irene Pence

#27. No matter how hard times are, people still want music. #Quote by Irene Hunt

#28. That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life - this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following. #Quote by Irene Joliot-Curie

#29. Tommy cocooned me in his arms. The same arms that struck out to protect me, the arms that saved me.
"In my life, I have never known, nor will I ever know, someone as strong and courageous as you, Elizabeth Irene Bradshaw," Tommy whispers against my temple. I have no words, so I nod my head against his chest, hoping he understands my acceptance of his praise. "You honour me with your trust, baby girl. I am so very proud of you. #Quote by Maggi Myers

#30. Every so often something came to life inside her, rebelled, demanded noise, movement, people. Life, my God, life! How long would this war go on? How many years would they have to live like this, in this dismal lethargy, bowed, docile, crushed like cattle in a storm? #Quote by Irene Nemirovsky

#31. No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water. #Quote by Irene Thomas

#32. I love you, Tanzy Meadows." His whispered words circled her ear, her heart, her innermost being. Tender kisses tantalized her neck. "Tell me you love me too. #Quote by Irene Onorato

#33. It's never trouble to do things for people you love. #Quote by Irene Hannon