Tanka Embedded Haiku Quotes & Sayings

Tanka
Black-and-white Holsteins
Crowd downfield at feeding time,
Mingling their blotches.
It is like ice breaking up
In a dark, swollen river. — Richard Wilbur

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn. — Debasish Mridha

When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime. — Uzo Aduba

our world is a product of the medieval past — Judith M. Bennett

Do you really love me?"

"Yes."

"Do you promise?"

"Yes."

"Pinky swear?"

"Pinky swear?" She chuckled. "Where on earth did you learn that?"

"From TV. Now do it. Give me your pinky swear, hayati. — Jaid Black

MONK ATE DINNER IN the comfort of the kitchen, with Hester and Scuff. There was a checked cloth on the table, and the yellow china jug full of flowers on the dresser at the side was so big it hid half of the plates kept there. The back door was open to let in the warmth of the summer evening and the faint smell of earth and cut grass. "Why's it matter so much?" Scuff asked. They had been speaking of the new canal at Suez. "Because it will take about five thousand miles off the journey from Britain to the Far East," Hester replied, eager to sharpen his interest in anything connected with schoolwork. — Anne Perry

Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice
that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another. — Malcolm Gladwell

Life is an opportunity to love. — Debasish Mridha