Taciturnity Is A Virtue Quotes & Sayings

As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with. — Katori Hall

Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience. — Christine Caldwell

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could. — Na'ama Yehuda

The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes. — Don Frye

You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently." — Sandra Bullock

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants. — Judy Horacek

Truman Flynn is a piece of paper in my coat pocket. He is a memory of water and of loss, his hand sliding free from mine, no way to hold on. — Brenna Yovanoff

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. — Malachy McCourt

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. — Thomas Browne

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. — Morris West

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. — John H. Johnson

Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit? — Aldo Leopold

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen. — Cassandra Clare