Takaan Folk Quotes & Sayings

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour. — W. Somerset Maugham

Hope, by itself, is a car without gas. You need to fuel it with action. — E.J. Divitt

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. — Derek Jacobi

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga. — Nicki Minaj

Places of learning are full to brimming, but those with a real thirst for knowledge are few. Remain true to yourself and never stop learning ... — Stephen Richards

Design is important because chaos is so hard. — Jules Feiffer

To measure the worthiness of an issue or political leader:
First, is the proposal, the policy or the idea being promoted, right as measured by the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Second, is it right as measured by the Lord's standard of constitutional government? ... The Lord's standard is a safe guide.
Third, ... is it right as measured by the counsel of the living oracles of God?
Fourth, what will be the effect upon the moral and the character of the people if this or that policy is adopted? — Ezra Taft Benson

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it. — Cinda Williams Chima

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit. — Sarah Josepha Hale

I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I think love is nothing but a fallacy propagated by the greeting card industry and a billion-dollar bridal enterprise that feeds into the fantasy of every little girl. — Addison Moore

I picked up a book on wilderness survival by Laurence Gonzalez and found in it this telling sentence: "The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits." His point is that when the two seem incompatible, we often hang onto the plan, ignore the warnings reality offers us and plunge into trouble. Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness. (Woolf's Darkness) — Rebecca Solnit

Anything that can be measured can be improved — Michael Dell