Tarumi Blood Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Iain M. Banks

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down. — Toni Morrison

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell. — Charles Lamb

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc. — Ursula Burns

If you are unmotivated to succeed, no one can help you.
If you are determined to succeed, no one can stop you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach. — Ron Baratono

The rooftops of Ankh-Morpork sprouted a fine array of gargoyles even in normal times, but now they were alive with as ghastly an array of faces as ever were seen outside a woodcut about the evils of gin-drinking among the non-woodcut-buying classes. — Terry Pratchett

How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored? — Janio Quadros

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be. — Richard Marcinko

One time Mom told me the people
you can be quiet with
are the ones
you are the most comfortable with. — Lisa Schroeder

Injustice, being the opposite of justice, is the putting a thing in a place not its own; it is to misplace a thing; it is to misuse or to wrong; it is to exceed or fall short of the mean or limit; it is to suffer loss; it is deviation from the right course; it is disbelief of what is true, or lying about what is true knowing it to be true. -Islam and Secularism page 78 — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth? — Mark Weisbrot

It is remarkable how events and truths can be reshaped, like wax that's sat too long in the sun. — Jodi Picoult

I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted. — Bill Kaulitz