Tammany Quotes & Sayings

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood. — David A. Bednar

When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will
exist. — Kurt Vonnegut

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality. — Shirley Henderson

Men tend to focus on the present and the future, and they like to present possibilities wether they're realistic or not. They are often fast moving and risk takers. Contrast that with women, who tend to focus on the present and the past due to their relational abilities, and since they use both sides of their brain, they tend to think more realistically and in detail about tasks that need to be done. As a result, they are usually more cautious and less risk taking. Put the two together and it's easy to see why you and your son will sometimes disagree or even clash. (22) — Kevin Leman

Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place. — Brian Tracy

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. — Elizabeth Kostova

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating. — Jacques Verges

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. — Jonathan Ames

Confession was the emotional equivalent to puking, Riley supposed. Something bad went down, bits of it came back up, you felt better. — J. Fally

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar. — Richard Dawson

That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself. — Damon Galgut

Divide and govern " - that's the thing. Split the majority into small parties and the minority will take care of itself. Such was the philosophy of Mr. Madison. The Tammany statesman who said " Give the people what they want, but make it unconstitutional," had substantially the same philosophy, but lacked the fine choice of language that characterized Mr. Madison. — Anonymous

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life. — Dan Buettner

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears. — Mark Potok

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name. — Pete Hamill

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people. — Moby