Talega Quotes & Sayings

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not. — Soren Kierkegaard

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent — Thomas Hobbes

Her nerves extended into those tresses, and her temper could always be softened by stroking them down. When her hair was brushed she would instantly sink into stillness and look like the Sphinx. If, in passing under one of the Edgon banks, any of its thick skeins were caught, as they sometimes were, by a prickly tuft of the large Ulex Europaeus
which will act as a sort of hairbrush
she would go back a few steps, and pass against it a second time. — Thomas Hardy

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. — Olivia Fox Cabane

It suddenly occurred to me that the whole notion of this side, of us and them - it was all over. It was no longer the Lord's Crusade. We were no longer fighting to overthrow Satan. We have been tested, I thought to myself, and we have been found wanting. Our faith was corrupted. My comrades and I - we'd become the endless days, days without light. What does that mean, you ask? We were sick and tired of living. At the least provocation, we would spit out, Fuck it, and kill whoever happened to be involved. (2007: 222) — Hwang Sok-yong

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere. — Lucy Stone

I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right! — Tommy Lasorda

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you. — R.C. Sproul