Tammiston Quotes & Sayings

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about. — Stephen King

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work ... that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself. ... The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. - CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, The Timeless Way of Building — Gretchen Rubin

I certainly found most of the Marines and soldiers I worked with to be top-notch. You had your exceptions - but then you have your exceptions in the Navy, too. — Chris Kyle

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it. — Michael Phelps

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. — Joey Ramone

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. — William C. Westmoreland

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp. — Bonnie D. Ford

My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific. — James Patterson

Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows! — Edith Wharton

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. — Albert Goldman

The greatest sin is to call yourself a sinner. You are a child of God. Though gold be covered with mud for centuries, it remains gold. So the pure 'gold' of the soul can be covered over with the mud of delusion for aeons, but in its true nature it remains forever undefiled."
- Paramhansa Yogananda — Paramahansa Yogananda