Taduesz Quotes & Sayings

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. — Frida Kahlo

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly. — Anne Lamott

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words — Catherine Ryan Hyde

His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory. — Anthony Doerr

If you have to beg someone to be in your life, they don't belong there. — Mandy Hale

I keep repeating the conversation with Taduesz in mind, reaching out to touch it to make sure it doesn't disappear. — Brigid Pasulka

Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages of twenty and thirty-four had imperceptibly replaced the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he had been less horrified by death than by life without the least knowledge of whence it came, what it is for, why, and what it is, Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development - the terms that had superseded these beliefs - were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur coat for a muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being, that he is as good as naked and that he must inevitably perish miserably. — Leo Tolstoy

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor? — Katherine Mansfield

The judge murmured with a reptilian smile: — Agatha Christie

The top two reasons to live: to love and to be loved. — Toni Sorenson

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind. — Sarah Kay

Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering. — Tony DiCicco

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. — Ronald Reagan

He melts, I think. He goes like a drop of froth. You look at him, and there he is. You look at him again, and - there he isn't. — Charles Dickens