Stephen Timoshenko Quotes & Sayings

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead. — Plautus

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death. — Rebecca West

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent. — Bobby Rahal

I pretended that it wasn't such a big deal, that I knew we weren't suited, that I agreed with what-ever bullshit rationale you used - 'we don't make each other the best possible versions of ourselves' or what-ever. But you did make me the best 'me'. — Lottie Moggach

To be noble, ... was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth. — Gail Tsukiyama

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money. — George W. Bush

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it. — Mary Renault

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. — Henry David Thoreau

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling

I was funny
ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense. — Claire Messud

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff. — Conor McGregor

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her. — Ogden Nash

I knew then he was blind when he looked at me. — V.C. Andrews