Taumaturgos Quotes & Sayings

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. — Wangari Maathai

The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without notice unless they're called to your attention. One of the most disingenuous moves in the incivility wars is to treat these expressions with a specious literalism; politics makes Freudians of us all. (205) — Geoffrey Nunberg

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. — Tom Hiddleston

I simply must say, as crass as we are conditioned by a troubled society to regard the word, I am a firm believer in the comparative merits of the word 'fuck. — David Foster Wallace

I knew what I'd say to him: You're much too late. We went ahead with our lives without you. — Abraham Verghese

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me. — Jeremy Irons

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist. — Merry Clayton

I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys. — Keegan Bradley

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me. — Joseph Pisani

But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer. — Richard Ben-Veniste