Tangram Quotes & Sayings

I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all. — Quentin Crisp

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for. — Steve Harvey

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror. — Francis Quarles

As any organizer of focus groups will tell you, people's views on highly emotional subjects, from immigration to abortion to drugs, will change just 30 minutes into a face-to-face discussion with people of differing views, provided that they are all given the same information and ground rules that enforce civility. One of the problems of pluralism, then, is the assumption that interests are fixed and that the role of the legislator is simply to act as a transmission belt for them, rather than having his own views that can be shaped by deliberation. — Anonymous

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood. — Ralph Cudworth

In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine.
"The first one is always the hardest," he said.
"The first?"
"The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after. — Cassandra Clare

Don't let your habits become handcuffs — Elizabeth Berg