Tanorias Table Quotes & Sayings

You have to get very comfortable with the idea of being lonely. For all of human history, we've always run away from being lonely and now there are even more distractions. But that's the thing - if you're going to make the decision to rebel against your tribe, you're going to get very lonely. — Sherman Alexie

To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves. — Grace Lee Boggs

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom. — Karen DeCrow

And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular. — Patrick Lencioni

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music. — Madonna Ciccone

There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all — Sharon Kay Penman

Cole stared at Cocky and felt like the worst parent in the world. — Alessandra Torre