Tapatias Translation Quotes & Sayings

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. — Ronald Reagan

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time. — Orville Schell

Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging. — Bryant McGill

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. — Mark Twain

On inspection it turned out to be a tiny toad, a quarter of an inch long, hopping mightily after an escaping millipede, itself no bigger than a thread, both going for all they were worth until they disappeared in the grass. Then a wolf spider, stratling in size and hairiness, streaked over the gravel, either chasing something smaller or being chased by something bigger, I couldn't tell which. I reckoned there must be a million minor dramas playing out around the place without ceasing. Oh, but they were hardly minor to the chaser and the chasee who were dealing in the coin of life and death. I was a mere bystander, an idler. They were playing for keeps. — Jacqueline Kelly

I want your best offer. [ ... ]
- You already have it.
She bit her lip, nodded.
- That's what I thought.
And then she walked away. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of the toothbrush mug? It's like those people who invent a lie as an excuse rather than the truth, even when the truth is better than the lie. — Helen Fielding

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational. — Aldous Huxley

I am too poor to bow. — Charles De Gaulle

Alas, respect for the truth compels perfect honesty — Neil Gaiman

I don't get why I need to prove my love to you by remembering the exact same things you do, the exact same way you do. It doesn't mean I don't love our life together. — Gillian Flynn