Talissa Smalley Quotes & Sayings

Stay with the beer.
beer is continuous blood.
a continuous lover. — Charles Bukowski

The timeless books remain the footprints of history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf. — Scott Lynch

Pacifism is the transitory luxury of a people whose security has been earned by the bravery and militarism of earlier generations. — Bruce Thornton

It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body. — Sathya Sai Baba

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. — John Bytheway

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought. — Padgett Powell

Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here — Peter Kreeft

It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target. — Val McDermid

The Buddha's principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on. — Pema Chodron

Good-will never added an onion to the soup, and is good for nothing but a passport to paradise. — Victor Hugo

Here is my question: Why don't we? Why are we so easily satisfied? Why is this sense of lustful, soul-deep angst so uncommon? Romans 8 tells us that it's not just creation, but we ourselves who groan in this way. But I don't see a lot of groaning in myself. I find myself far too easily satisfied with my relationship with the — Matt Chandler

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. — Alex Campbell