Tacian Quotes & Sayings

In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other. — Lemmy Kilmister

Debate doesn't really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That's something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities. — Seamus Heaney

How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me? — Ben Lerner

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book ... I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist. — Anthony Burgess

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression. — James E. Faust

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive. — John Bradshaw

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself. — Townes Van Zandt

Do not hurry; do not rest. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe