Tamars Quotes & Sayings

O, the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare! — William Shakespeare

The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having. — Helen Humphreys

She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven. — Angela Carter

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye. — Paul Johnson

Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse. — P.C. Cast

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head. — Tift Merritt

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom. — Ronald Reagan

law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity. - H. L. MENCKEN, NOTES ON DEMOCRACY — Radley Balko

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon. — Mandy Patinkin

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration? — Jeb Bush

To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly,
Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely?
To you, my Cornelius, whose learning pedantic,
Has dared to set forth in three volumes gigantic
The history of ages - ye gods, what a labor!
And still to enjoy the small wit of a neighbor.
A man who can be light and learned at once, sir,
By life's subtle logic is far from a dunce, sir.
So take my small book - if it meet with your favor.
The passing of years cannot dull its sweet savor. — Catullus

I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a couple of years. — Robert Kazinsky

Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on the corner? We set up a Freedom School that was fashioned after the SNCC Freedom Schools in Mississippi and other places. — Junius Williams

Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. — Chris Hedges

And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behavior whistling in the dark. — Benjamin Alire Saenz