Henry Tonks Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that most people naturally like being around people who like their company. — Amina Athman

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. — Andre Gide

I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me. — Oprah Winfrey

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life. — C.S. Lewis

I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.' — Tommy Cooper

As our great American philosopher William James has said, an individual has as many selves as there are individuals whom he knows. There isn't the slightest hypocrisy in this, but only pragmatic ethics. For not all persons are worthy of our acquaintance, and not all persons require equal time from us. You save your most valuable 'personality' for the most valuable persons you know. — Joyce Carol Oates

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time. — Meg Cabot

He must be stilled in order to create that deep repose of the soul in which alone the word of God can be heard. Of — Max Weber

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. — Edward Abbey

Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest. — Sathya Sai Baba

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist. — William Kircher

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There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime. — Charlotte Stein

A few of the researchers seem to think that once a borderline, always a borderline. That you can't cure it - you can only control it. That a lot of people are destined to live their lives in and out of institutions, that there isn't much hope. — Rachel Reiland

The vampire gagged. The muscles of its neck constricted, widened, constricted again, and it disgorged a six-inch-long metal cylinder onto my desk. The bloodsucker grasped it, twisted the cylinder's halves apart, and retrieved a roll of papers. "Photographs," Ghastek said, handing me a couple of sheets from the roll.
"That's disgusting."
"He is thirty years old," Ghastek said. "All his internal organs, with the exception of the heart, atrophied long ago. The throat makes for a very good storage cavity. People seem to prefer it to the anus."
Translation: be happy I didn't pull it out of my ass. Thank the gods for small favors. — Ilona Andrews