Tanyasi Let Quotes & Sayings

Believing isn't wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know. — Dean Koontz

A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't. — Keith Crown

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. — Lucretius

I got another bath, she announced to her fellow telephone salespersons. She was well in the lead in the office daily Getting People Out of the Bath stakes, and only needed two more points to win the weekly Coitus Interruptus award. — Terry Pratchett

Monarchs have a great weakness, however, for their own sons, no matter how feckless and inept. A statistical study should be done across cultures assessing the relative frequency of the bizarre outcomes to which monarchical succession is prone: failure to provide an heir or successor, provision of an heir completely inept, or division of rule among several incompatible ones. Orderly succession followed by a successful reign is the exception. — James J. O'Donnell

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day ... — Frances Harper

President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent. — Dick Morris

Imagine if we treated offensive words like we treat chemical pollution. I'd love to see a 'Talk Green' campaign sweeping the world — Sahar El-Nadi

No," the Boss (Willie) corrected, "I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. In fact, I know a lot of law. And I made me some money out of law. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's to the breeze. The law is too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets onto the books you would have done something different ... " Willie Stark; All the King's Men — Robert Penn Warren

Not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously — Waking Life

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better. — Dan Barker

Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi. — Seth Green

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies. — Lisa Gerrard

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment. — Meher Baba

They Sailed Away In A Silver Cup Upon A Grassy Sea — Kathleen Baldwin