Tanrise Quotes & Sayings

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing]. — Shunryu Suzuki

Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures? — L.M. Montgomery

we sell our souls in public and buy them back in private, among — George Orwell

'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. — Steve Carell

God should always be in the first place in our lives — Sunday Adelaja

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect. — Thorstein Veblen

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river. — Helen Hayes

It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood. — Jodi Picoult

I'm in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn't put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I'm just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don't want to talk about Sarah Palin. — Meghan McCain

Self-confidence is not the temper which God uses for His instruments. He works with 'bruised reeds,' and breathes His strength into them. It is when a man says 'I can do nothing,' that he is fit for God to employ. 'When I am weak, then I am strong.' Moses — Alexander MacLaren

In some important aspects the Nazi genocide was not unique. In numbers killed, Hitler was surpassed by Stalin and by Mao. In proportion of the population killed, he was surpassed by Pol Pot. But, in other ways, there was a unique moral horror to what the Nazis did. There was an intensity of positive hatred in those who planned the genocide, — Jonathan Glover