Tartly Define Quotes & Sayings

I only joke about really serious things, — Ali Smith

Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. — Mitch Albom

But I belong to Teutonic blood; it is little mingled in this part of England to what it is in others; we retain much of their language; we retain more of their spirit; we do not look upon life as a time for enjoyment, but as a time for action and exertion. Our glory and our beauty arise out of our inward strength, which makes us victorious over material resistance, and over greater difficulties still. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. — David Almond

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity ... — Bernie Sanders

She was tall, elegantly dressed and coifed, and looked ten years younger than her fifty-five years. — Stuart Woods

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Ideas of hope are deeply disturbing to a certain kind of presumptive progressive, one who is securely established one way or another ... Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that's austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited ... Joy doesn't betray, but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection. — Rebecca Solnit

Connor hands shiny black guns to both me and Peter.
I'm pretty sure that if the best description of the weapon I can come up with is black and shiny, then I probably shouldn't be handling it. — Jamie Canosa

You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV ... and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame. — Shannon Wheeler

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true. — James MacDonald

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours. — Anne Rice