Tattycoram Quotes & Sayings

You really are like him, your father."
"I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad."
"What does it matter? It's simply true. — Victoria Schwab

When, in an 1892 lecture before a group of teachers, William James declared that "the art of remembering is the art of thinking," he was stating the obvious.14 Now, his words seem old-fashioned. Not only has memory lost its divinity; it's well on its way to losing its humanness. Mnemosyne has become a machine. — Nicholas Carr

With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets. — Khaled Hosseini

Jesus, Dad," I said as people stared. "Someone will rob you."
The captain laughed. "Yeah." He jerked his chin toward Kash. "Him. — Heidi Heilig

People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking. — George Carlin

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram. — Charles Dickens

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion. — Etgar Keret

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing. — Casey Spooner

He was a futurist. They were all futurists. Everyone here gazed into the abyss for a living. Do it long enough, and the abyss would gaze back into you. If the abyss did that for long enough, the people who paid you for your eyes would send you to Normal Head. The — Warren Ellis

Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves. — Charles Dickens

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience. — Jim Gaffigan

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention. — Seth Berkley

Hence, the unity of Scripture is no minor matter: a fragmented Bible may actually produce theologically orthodox, morally upright, warmly pious idol worshipers! — Craig G. Bartholomew