Tabertv Quotes & Sayings

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. — Peter Ustinov

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from. — Owen Wister

I'm looking at you. Why are you always trying to hide how pretty you are? — Cynthia Hand

I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don't know. I understood the enormous risk of telling the truth, how the telling could result in every level of hell reigning down on you, your skin scorched to the bone and then bone to ash and then nothing but a lingering odour of shame and decomposition, but now I was also beginning to understand the new and alien feeling of taking the risk and having the person on the other end of the telling, the listener, say:
Bad shit at home? You guys are running away?
Yeah, I said.
I understand, said, Noehmi. — Miriam Toews

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential. — Edward Dunlop

By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another's solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give. — Parker J. Palmer

What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little
if any
recourse for finding a way around it. — Alexandra Bracken

He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn't see the knife they're hiding. — Alexandra Bracken

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought. — James Redfield

When an animal spoke, you were supposed to pay attention. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. — Helen Rowland

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack. — Malorie Blackman

In the past, I thought I should put serious effort into being less materially attached, to train myself to like expensive things less. Now it was happening organically and almost violently, with full conviction. — Charlotte Shane

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work. — Anton Corbijn

I remembered that you can find joy in work and life, and if you do it right, they fuel each other-like dueling drummers, better and better, one after the other. — Abbi Jacobson