Taishi Tamaki Quotes & Sayings

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. — David Elkind

To survive the neighborhoods and shield my body, I learned another language consisting of a basic complement of head nods and handshakes. I memorized a list of prohibited blocks. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

His eyes search mine, more serious than his tone would indicate, and I know he's looking to see whether or not I'm falling apart. He doesn't need to. — Kiersten White

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. — Tim Berners-Lee

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now! — Alice Cary

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way
and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. (p. 53) — Geneen Roth

I can't give political advice to politicians. — Glenn Hubbard

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing
her own version of resisting. — Lauren Oliver

Grandmother. The true power behind the power. — Lisa Birnbach

These pretenders tried to cast out devils in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preached, but the devils leaped upon them and overcame them; thus while certain preachers have declaimed against sin, the very vices which they denounced have overthrown them. The — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When the towers again twin-tickle the clouds, I offer to walk again, to be the expression of the builder's collective voice. Together, we will rejoice in an aerial song of victory. I will carry my life across the wire, as your life, as all our lives, past, present, and future -the lives lost, the lives welcomed since.
we can overcome. — Philippe Petit

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. — Tim Blake Nelson