Tasheaka Quotes & Sayings

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All this while the little panel of pine wood remained over the chimney in the mill-kitchen with the cuckoo clock and the waxen Calvary, and sometimes it seemed to Nello a little hard that whilst his gift was accepted he himself should be denied. — Ouida

The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become stronger, after it's been broken. — Pleasefindthis

How the parts of me disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter. — Josh James Riebock

I think we need to remember ... that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be. — Kerry James Marshall

You can't take the human out of the person. — Tommy Tran

You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can't understand why the road doesn't get easier, why God doesn't remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top, because the bumps are what you can climb on. — Warren W. Wiersbe

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons. — Jane Yolen

Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened? — Valentina Tereshkova

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined. — Nicole Williams

Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. — Ray Bradbury

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. — Eric Hoffer

Christianity is a misogynistic hierarchy of oppression. — Anonymous