Durably Tundra Quotes & Sayings

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve. — Amy Dickinson

This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life. — Jack Black

Would it be all right if I visited Meg after school each day for a few hours?" "Actually, that would be great, but only if you are up for it." I reached my hand to Meg's foot and wiggled her socked big toe. — D.A. Roach

A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face. — Richard M. Weaver

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. — Stanley Kubrick

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could. — Lynda Barry

different. Warmer.' He paused to let that soak — Joe Haldeman

I grew up reading books about heroic collies. — Cathleen Schine

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision. — Natalie Massenet

The emotion she could deal with best was anger. — Orson Scott Card

Robert Atkinson, PhD, author of The Gift of Stories, wrote, "There is a power in storytelling that can transform our lives. Traditional stories, myths, and fairy tales hold this power. The stories we tell of our own lives carry this transforming power, too. In the process of telling our life stories, we discover that we are more sacred beings than we are human beings, that the most powerful life story expresses the struggle of [our] soul. — Whitney Johnson

I am tarred and feathered with Time. — Ogden Nash

The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience - but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience. — Chogyam Trungpa

There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements. — Frederick Lenz