Taurina Quotes & Sayings

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins. — Charlie Chaplin

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.' — Donna McKechnie

I'am looking for the book "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola to read online. Can you help me with this? — Tomie DePaola

What the hell is so funny?"
"First of all," she said, her confidence growing, "they're not my MASTERS. I don't have a MASTER. Second, they don't need a battalion to take you down. And third
and this is really the most important point
whoever said I came alone? — Derek Landy

It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him. — Lao-Tzu

Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario. — Seth Godin

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men. — Victor Hugo

There was one activity that Bonhoeffer would enjoy in Barcelona, but could never enjoy in Berlin. That was the arte taurina (bull fighting). Though an aesthete and an intellectual, Bonhoeffer was neither effete nor squeamish. His brother Klaus arrived for a visit on Easter Saturday, and on Easter afternoon - Bonhoeffer preached that morning - they were "dragged" by a German teacher, presumably Thumm, to the "great Easter corrida." He — Eric Metaxas

But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been glad to cease, some unfathomable, mysterious force still led them on, and the artillerymen-the third of them left-soaked with sweat, grimed with powder and blood, and panting with weariness, still brought the charges, loaded, aimed, and lighted the match; and the cannon balls flew as swiftly and cruelly from each side and crushed human flesh, and kept up the fearful work, which was done not at the will of men, but at the will of Him who sways men and worlds. — Leo Tolstoy

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come. — Tom Peters

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. — Joseph Roux

I want to be remembered as someone like Mohammad Ali. He was not just a fighter - he was a freedom fighter. — Justice Smith

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. — William Hazlitt