Irene Fantopoulos Quotes

Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world ~ Irene Fantopoulos

Inconvenience is the road to progress ~ Irene Fantopoulos

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.' ~ Irene Rosenfeld

You miss a lot watching life from the sidelines--and letting fear hold you back. ~ Irene Hannon

Irene made a private mental resolution that if she ever became a queen, her throne would incorporate a cushion. Also a convenient bookcase. ~ Genevieve Cogman

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films. ~ Irene Dunne

It was still mild when they walked home from the party, and Irene looked up at the spring stars. "How far that little candle throws its beams," she exclaimed. "So shines a good dead in a naughty world. ~ John Cheever

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure. ~ Sophie Irene Loeb

From my window I watched the full moon - a moon that reminded me of Brett - become shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful, hour after hour, and wonder if this aching around my heart, this sense of being alone, forlorn and unwanted in a world where there was gayety and love for others of my age, was going to continue for all of my days. ~ Irene Hunt

She was approaching the hardest moment to be faced when separated from the one you love, the moment when you finally get used to your pain, and then, you are only half alive, because that pain meant you were still fully alive. It was a bleeding, gasping kind of life. ~ Irene Nemirovsky

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world. ~ Irene Rosenfeld

Don't let imperfections or petty differences hinder love. We don't all have to agree on everything in order to create harmony within our own circles. We simply have to respect divergent opinions and recognize the good in the imperfect people we love--which more often then not will outweigh the bad. ~ Irene Hannon

Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not.' I ~ Irene Hannon

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading. ~ Irene Rosenfeld

When I was a boy, playing at the beach, I remember a game I loved, which was an omen of my future life. I would dig a channel with high sides in the sand for the sea to fill. But when the water flooded the path I created for it with such violence that it destroyed everything in its way: my castles made of pebbles, my dikes of sand. It swept away everything, destroying it all, then disappeared, leaving me with a heavy heart, yet not daring to ask for pity, since the sea had only responded to my call. It's the same with love. You call out for it, you plan its course. The wave crashes into your heart, but it's so different from how you imagined it, so bitter and icy. ~ Irene Nemirovsky

Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet. ~ Irene Hunt

If we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything. ~ Irene Dunne

I play piano and write better than I can sing. ~ Irene Cara

Strong-minded women with a cause accepted even fewer excuses than the average gangster, when it came to getting what they wanted, and what they wanted right now was Irene making a speech. ~ Genevieve Cogman

I had sparkle that morning, sparkle that originated somewhere deep inside me and spread outward to my cheeks and eyes, even it seemed, to the gleam of my hair. ~ Irene Hunt

It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake of the people of Nepal for whom it is a daily tragic reality, the world must remain engaged and keep up the pressure on the government and the Maoists. ~ Irene Khan

I was having a field day down the Westend; my deep pockets were jingling and full of money nearly every day of the week. My brother's bird, Irene, wanted a fur coat, so I got her one by throwing a brick through the shop window and grabbing the coat off the shop dummy. Once I got to the bed-sit, I put the jacket on and waltzed in to the flat looking like Liberace, the two of them burst out laughing. Irene was like a tramp eating chips.
'Let's try it on, Jimmy, please?'
As she swooned around like Joan Collins with the fur coat on, she had the air of a council estate beauty queen about her. ~ Stephen Richards

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. ~ Irene Dunne

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. ~ Irene Khan

We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays. ~ Irene Joliot-Curie

Cara is not my real name, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are. ~ Irene Cara

These two sections [of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise], plus some of the author's notes, are all we have
this in itself is a tragedy and waste of war. Had this novel been finished we would be hailing it as one of the supreme works of literature. As it stands, it is like a great cathedral gutted by a bomb. The ruined shell still soars to heaven, a reminder of the human spirit triumphing despite human destructiveness. ~ Irene Nemirovsky

I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you. ~ Irene Cara

She was too exhausted and downcast to take in the importance of the news- just as a person who has shed so many tears at the bedside of someone who is dying has none left for the actual moment of death. ~ Irene Nemirovsky

Because this is you now. This is the woman you are today. You're standing tall. You've come through this and no one is going to hurt you again. I love you. ~ Irene Kelly

Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt. ~ Rachel Caine

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing. ~ Irene Cara

Then what is the purpose of the Library?" Vale asked.
"To save books," Irene said firmly. ~ Genevieve Cogman

Women with low self-esteem or those who are depressed, however, tend to focus exclusively on their shortcomings and are bitter about what they perceive as the advantages or good fortune of others. Taken to an extreme, such an individual tends to be self-involved, hostile, and cutting. It's natural to feel envy occasionally, but if this is a persistent pattern, it can signal a toxic friendship. ~ Irene S. Levine

You, Baylor Irene Moore, are the most gorgeous and driven and smartest woman I've ever set eyes on. You're not even gone yet, and I miss you. ~ Toni Aleo

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me. ~ Irene Rosenfeld

Pain and rejection seem so negative but often times the product of these is positive new thinking. ~ Irene Dueck

The queen! someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare. ~ Megan Whalen Turner

Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.'
So do girls, Miri thought. ~ Judy Blume

People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in life, and strove through a few hundred engrossing pages to attain this object. They were all noble and generous, and their lives were bright and beautiful. What interesting and delightful moments Irene had passed in their society! They had made her laugh and cry and suffer and rejoice, and had entertained her with the brilliancy of their wit. How dull and colourless real people had appeared beside these heroes and heroines of fiction. ~ Aimee Dostoyevsky

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well. ~ Irene Cara