Taparse Con Quotes & Sayings

You are the instrument of your own illumination. — Vivian Gornick

Genius is of no country. — Charles Churchill

The wise consider themselves "orphaned," "widowed," and "worthless." Their humility is the source of their strength. — Lao-Tzu

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own. — John E. Carson

you are the only boat in this regatta. — Penny Reid

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence. — James Dickey

I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that choice, but also that you can have stand-alone episodes, where a story can have a beginning, middle and end. — Alex Kurtzman

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of. — Gennifer Flowers

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. — Diane Abbott

Despite my lack of sophistication or maturity, I was headstrong. My sense of possibility and certainty made me focused. I had blinders on. I was a sprinter--there were no long-term goals, I just knew I'd run as hard as I could in any situation. I'd learned that as an adolescent, to keep moving, to not be dragged down. The best word to describe it is "scrappy." I still feel that way today. Put me in a situation and I will find my way out of it or through it, I will hustle and scramble. I hate losing. Only later do I think about how it looks from the outside, and then I get stuck in a cycle of shame or anxiety--but in the moment, I rare could see beyond it, I really could fight. I didn't think much about how it looked from the outside, or how I looked. — Carrie Brownstein

No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked ... — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing. — Leighton Meester

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. — Herbert Hoover