Tarskis World Quotes & Sayings

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. — Susan B. Anthony

It is not music's function to express rational necessities. — Artur Schnabel

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most. — Seth

...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon focusing all attention on the formation of the modern world and 'modernity.' By directing attention to a time period rather than to a region, Western scholars can place the West at the center of any discussion, and subordinate backward Asia to Western history, without explicitly condemning Asian cultures and polities or arguing for a narrowly Eurocentric view of the world. Nevertheless, modern history is effectively a racist pursuit that not only elevates white Westerners above all others, but also actively denigrates Asian history. — Peter A. Lorge

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good
kept him in touch with Higher Things. — Sinclair Lewis

Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power — T. S. Eliot

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom. — A. Philip Randolph

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings. — Jessica Valenti

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there. — Joey Galloway

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life. — Alexia Fast

Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month. — William Dean Howells

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them. — Charles Dickens

And what do you say of lovers of wine ... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine — Plato

The success is like an umbrella. It has wires in it called faith. It has no meaning if there is no rain and storm called ebbs and flows of life. — Vikrmn