Masango Taxis Quotes & Sayings

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. — C.S. Lewis

When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His chosen ones. — Jean Rhys

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. — James Buchan

Stillness speaks not with mouth and tongue, but with the essential roar of Eternity itself. — Martin Cosgrove

I'll be the cloud and you the moon.
I'll cover you with both hands,
And our roof will be the sky. — Rabindranath Tagore

Who needs a bladder when you need an alarm clock — T. Haque

Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you. — Lisa Scottoline

No one survived on the streets without a protective mask. No one survived naked. You had to have a role. You had to be "thug," "playa," "athlete," "gangsta," or "dope man." Otherwise, there was only one role left to you: "victim. — Jerry Heller

With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate of increase in product per worker; and, with average hours of work declining, it means still higher growth rates in product per man-hour. — Simon Kuznets

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto. — Joaquin Andujar

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. — H.L. Mencken

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without orator. — William Shakespeare

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. — Ambrose Bierce

It's one thing to want someone, to desire to be with them, but it's an entirely different thing to actually need them. I never wanted to need anyone ever again. — D.T. Dyllin