Talfryn Eye Quotes & Sayings

A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility. — Honore De Balzac

People don't change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them. — Steven Erikson

Many of the members of the new upper class are balkanized. Furthermore, their ignorance about other Americans is more problematic than the ignorance of other Americans about them. It is not a problem if truck drivers cannot empathize with the priorities of Yale professors. It is a problem if Yale professors, or producers of network news programs, or CEOs of great corporations, or presidential advisers cannot empathize with the priorities of truck drivers. It is inevitable that people have large areas of ignorance about how others live, but that makes it all the more important that the members of the new upper class be aware of the breadth and depth of their ignorance. — Charles Murray

Lou asked point-blank, Can love last? (Rural people get to philosophizing, and will say anything.)
- Oh, darling! No, not that heart-thumping passion. Give that eighteen months. But it's replaced by something even better.
Lou waited.
- Lovers! — Annie Dillard

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why. — Laurent Brancowitz

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now. — Shelley Hennig

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart. — Pat Conroy

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. — Jane Goodall

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. — John Ensign

Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation. — Baha'u'llah

I took a moment to recover, and then, just to be safe, I looked inside the Dumpster. There didn't seem to be anything else inside except garbage, which I thought was a very positive development. I hoisted myself up onto the closed side and, looking once more toward the mouth of the alley to make sure nobody was watching, I reached up and touched the window. I pushed at it and it rattled ever so slightly. Good news: That meant it was not nailed shut, or sealed by too many years of sloppy paint jobs. I — Jeff Lindsay

When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers. — Eric Maskin