Tallnin Quotes & Sayings

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking. — Steve Allen

Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there! — Charles Lamb

You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose. — Guillermo Maldonado

Not letting the world destroy you. That's a daily battle. — Matthew Quick

One of the functions of entertainment, I think, is education. - Roy E. Disney — Newton Lee

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming. — Halldor Laxness

Memory is sweet.
Even when it's painful, memory is sweet. — Li-Young Lee

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you. — Mark Oliver Everett

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall. — Lynsey Addario

I didn't want any surprises; I churlishly thought if I revealed my Judaism at McDonald's, I would somehow be protected by the friendly American forces of crispy chicken sandwiches and supersized French fries. — Jared Cohen