Tami Quotes & Sayings

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat. — Tami Hoag

Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love. - Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil. — Tami Hoag

For me the most valuable part of this kind of research, however, is just hanging out with the men and women on the job, listening to them, absorbing the atmosphere and attitudes of their world. — Tami Hoag

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours. — Tami B Harriott

Which do you think would be worse?" Tippen asked. "Knowing you're a son of a bitch or knowing you fathered one? — Tami Hoag

She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole. — Tami Hoag

beautiful is the new gold/ — Tami Potter

He was broken because of the army, and the army didn't want him because he was broken. — Tami Hoag

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that. — Tami Hoag

Money soothes a lot of ills and helps people to tolerate what they might not otherwise be able to stomach. — Tami Egonu

Parker suspected that Jace had been born an adult. At nineteen he had a larger sense of duty and responsibility than ninety percent of the people Parker knew. — Tami Hoag

Write your dream obituary and live that life! — Tami Holzman

Man, y'all make the Addams family look like Ozzie and Harriet.(Annie) — Tami Hoag

Never show your fear or your weaknesses, doll. Someone will spin you around and knock you flat with it when you least expect it. — Tami Hoag

Mitch shook his head. "Amazing. You'd literally do anything wouldn't you?" Turning a pointed look on her hand, he lifted it from his arm and dropped it. "Frankly, Ms. Price, I'd sooner stick my dick in a meat grinder. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a stolen child to find. Impossible as it may for you to comprehend, he's a hell of a lot more important than you. — Tami Hoag

Dennis killed me! — Tami Hoag

The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it's rare that we're listened to. — Tami Egonu

A truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought — Tami Hoag

If you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere. — Tami Hoag

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful. — Tami Stronach

She couldn't concentrate enough to lose herself in a book - her lifelong method of escape. — Tami Hoag

To them. Irina's apartment was located over the plush clubby — Tami Hoag

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave. — Tami Hoag

Jealousy can instigate the cruellest act, or more to the point, hatred can. Miss Bennett was the one who found Nathan lying at the bottom of the stairs in the cellar, said he must have slipped or something, especially with one leg being so much weaker than the other. They as good people never would have suspected their own daughter of pushing him. That she never showed emotion over her brother's death was put down to trauma. I could see what they could not - a child incapable of any kind of feeling apart from selfishness. I can still picture him now, lying on his stomach, his head twisted at an unnatural angle, eyes glazed like one of Rhiannon's dolls. She was then about seven years old with the face of an angel and a nature as cruel as anyone on death row. — Tami Egonu

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life. — Tami Hoag

In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment. — Tami Hoag

Throw up" Victor said.
Bacteria, he believed, would run up his arms and gain access to his brain through his ear canals. "Vomit. Puke. Spew. Disgorge. Regorge. Discharge- like excrement."
"Victor, stop it!" Doll snapped. "You're making me nauseous."
"Talk
vomit words. Sound and sound alike," he said. — Tami Hoag

We are all blinded by deceit of what society or family tells us is right. Some of us choose to break free. — Tami Egonu

I liked my house. I liked my stuff. I had to start over once. I don't want to have to do it again. But life says, 'Tough bounce,' and what are my options? Take it on the chin and keep marching. — Tami Hoag

It was perfectly innocent.' That's what Gary Hart said. One day he's running for president, the next he's sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains. — Tami Hoag

The zombie is the angle. You want people to get to the rest of what you just said? Embrace the zombie. We live in a society of self-absorbed, unaware drones desensitized to the suffering of others. — Tami Hoag

How can I?" Kennedy asked. "How can I trust someone again?"
Sabrina adjusted her veil and squeezed her fist around the white-with-blue-embroidery handkerchief in her hand. "You just do. I don't know how to explain it. You just reach a point where you realize this man is the one, and you are going to put all of your trust in him because you are so in love you don't really have a choice. — Tami Lund

Hatred is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die of it. — Tami Hoag

It wasn't like she hadn't come across hot guys throughout the course of the last three years, so why was her heart racing? Why did she feel flushed? — Tami Lund

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy. — Tami Hoag

The bookcases were lined with titles, hundreds of books shelved by subject in alphabetical order.-Everything from aberrant behavior to the mysteries of zen. — Tami Hoag

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings. — Tami Hoag

Pinto bean & spiralized sweet potato quesadilla — Tami Hardeman

Most violence committed against women is perpetuated by men. I once read a quote that the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her. — Tami Hoag

When you live life at altitude and then trip and fall - which we all do every day - you have a long way to fall and you may kill yourself. But if you're standing on the ground, you can fall again and again and simply get up, dust yourself off, and take the next step. — Tami Simon

Tattoos are a road map of the bearer's personal journey. — Tami Hoag

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey. — Tami Hoag

You can vent your anger and think that others are to blame when in truth the anger you carry belongs to you.
Learn to accept responsibility for every action.
Learn to let go of preconception.
Learn to let go of what you have learnt in your life.
Travel lightly and you will find the journey has far more enlightenment than you could ever have imagined. — Tami Egonu

Beneath all the unintelligent commentary about pop culture and what everyone had for dinner, the Twitterverse was a turbulent sea of vicious accusation, unsubstantiated rumor, and outright lies. The false facelessness of it gave people the freedom to strike out in ways they might never have dared in person. Even the meek became assassins on Twitter, drunk on the counterfeit confidence of imagined anonymity. — Tami Hoag

He did that slow perusal thing with his eyes that guys did when they wanted a girl to know they liked what they saw. A slow smile curved his lips. "Yep."

She recognized that look. She may have been out of the dating game for far too long, but she still understood the process. What she didn't know was how to respond. — Tami Lund

Every one has a story someone in the world needs to hear. — Tami Belt

She wore a fitted white scoop neck shirt under a thin jacket, slim brown pants and tennis shoes. He bet she looked hot in four-inch heels. He wondered how long she'd last in this town, and he decided he wanted to sleep with her before she left. — Tami Lund

Everyone was a victim of something. — Tami Hoag

We all change. The causes are different; that's all. Some people change because they want to, some because they have to. Sometimes it's a choice and sometimes it's not. You didn't get to pick. — Tami Hoag

I love everything about you. Don't you ever think I don't. Even when you make me mad, I love you so much I can hardly stand it. — Tami Hoag

They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you will get to the top of the mountain, but in the moment you only need to focus on the next ledge. — Tami Hoag

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts. — Tami Hoag

Pinched into a knot as she chewed, an expression that might have been concentration or a commentary on the tartness of the fruit. She wiped the juice from her over-inflated lower lip with the back of her hand. "Did he used to be on Days of Our Lives?" Sharon rolled her eyes. The bimbob made no comment. — Tami Hoag

The past overshadows the present foreshadows the future. — Tami Hoag

I have no desire to spend my life dancing backward. — Tami Hoag

Your financial situation is not a question of fate or luck, but a result of thoughts, emotions and actions - that generate money. — Tami Yaari

The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them. — Tami Hoag

It is my name for you. Amaka is a Nigerian name and it means beautiful. — Tami Egonu

The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become. — Tami Stronach

That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want - or want what you find. — Tami Hoag

As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up. — Tami Hoag

The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble? — Tami Hoag

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way - which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged. — Tami Hoag

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. — Tami Hoag

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it? — Tami Hoag

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick. — Tami Hoag

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. — Tami Hoag

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness. — Tami Hoag

(That saying about how God gives special needs children to special moms is crap. He gives special kids to moms who are already crazy themselves.) — Tami Lynn Tate

What's your version of the perfect guy?"
"I guess I'd like someone who proves he cares by his actions instead of just saying it all the time."
"That's reasonable."
"And I'd like someone who has his own life, too. You know I work a lot of hours at the hospital, and I like what I do. I imagine I'd come to resent a guy who expects me to work a nine-to-five schedule just because it fits his needs."
"Anything else?"
"But he still has to be - " she cut herself off.
"Good in bed? — Tami Lund

You don't have to access the physical details to address the emotional damage within yourself. You can't escape your own experience. — Tami Hoag

So many people mean nothing to us, we pass one another by without acknowledgement, without comprehending the gifts many have to offer, if only we slowed down and realised we're not all so different. My front door isn't open to everyone, but I can tell a good one when I see them just like I know trouble when it's staring me in the face. — Tami Egonu

The wind gives and it takes. You wait, I believe it favours you. — Tami Egonu

Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on. — Tami Hoag

Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife. — Tami Hoag

It wouldn't do him any good to cry, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to think. He had to try to gather as much information as he could, and lay it all out, and reason through it, and come up with some ideas of what to do and how to help. — Tami Hoag

Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity. — Tami Hoag

The world is a reflection of how we see it and feel. — Tami Egonu

Brave Girl Boots A Forty-Day Journey to Brave TAMI WALKER — Tami Walker

But no one has seen a trace of lightbearers in over five hundred years. Somebody wiped them out. Probably our kind, trying to inherit their magic."

"Probably our kind eating them for dinner," Finn contributed to the conversation for the first time. "Back then we were slightly more primal."

"Slightly," Tanner remarked tongue in cheek. — Tami Lund

The stars and planets don't disappear just because it's daytime. — Tami Egonu

The idea of synchronizing her outer movements with the natural rhythms of her body inspired her, — Tami Lynn Kent

The wind changes direction within an instant and contains within it knowledge that can take away a life or spare it, as fate dictates. The wind likes you and fate will be kind, you just have to have hope. — Tami Egonu - A Rhapsody Of Dream

Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it. — Tami Hoag

This time, I won't lose my way. I'm going to believe in myself. — Satoshi Shiki

From the dawn of time to the end of time, the world would never run short of cold, cold hearts. — Tami Hoag

What is death but the opportunity for a new beginning? — Tami Egonu

It's amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life. — Tami Egonu

The death of those considered expendable to achieve such goals only leaves blood to drown the earth with the memory of corruption and confusion. — Tami Egonu