Shira Tamir Quotes & Sayings

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. — Kate Smith

Without the power to concentrate that
is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence. — Arnold Bennett

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong. — Luke Evans

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation. — Jack Vance

I'm not that hard to get to know, really." He flashed me a quick smile. "But you ... I think you've made an art form out of deflection and self-possession. — Samantha Young

divide things equally between both children? If anything should happen to her she is appealing to him to honor this final wish. It is the first letter she has written to her husband in over fifty years, an admission that makes her choke back a tear. Fifty years. The golden jubilee that neither remembered. Fields let for grazing. No more the proud neighing thoroughbreds in the fields, the thoroughbreds on which his hopes centered — Edna O'Brien

You can twist the truth but you cannot break it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's ironic that the Tea Party populists, most of whom believe that they are furthering the American ideal of "rugged individualism," are supporting mega-corporate-friendly policies like Reaganomics and Clintonomics and are making it very difficult for individuals to be anything other than drones in a giant corporate-run economic machine. And, on the flipside, those countries that call themselves "democratic socialist" in their organization - Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden - actually provide a deep and fertile soil into which entrepreneurs may plant new businesses. — Thom Hartmann

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. — David Hyde Pierce

Do not stand at a distance and wave hands. Get closer and hug. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that. — Nalo Hopkinson