Madam Taray Quotes & Sayings

So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what's irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy. They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. — Leo Tolstoy

It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also
necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone
noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to
be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular. — Frank Pittman

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. — Therese Of Lisieux

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. — Chuck Hagel

The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film. — Mark Haddon

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables. — Jayne Mansfield

I am not going to do anything with you: not if you mean by that 'do something to you' without your leave. We might do some things together. I don't know about sides. I go my own way; but your way may go along with mine for a while. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars. — William Clay Ford Jr.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. — Macklemore