Tawna Quotes & Sayings

Stop," he murmured, or at least that's what he meant to say. It came out sounding more like "Yes," which probably wasn't the same thing at all. — Tawna Fenske

Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another. — Ron Paul

I feel grace. Warm and flowing like a river, it pours over me. I am awash in grace and cannot help but raise my face to it as I would the sun. I want to laugh as it rains downs on me, ripples through my limbs, cleanses them of fatigue and self-loathing. I am reborn in this grace, and suddenly, I can do anything. — Robin LaFevers

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Many of us have been burned by love and vowed to keep ourselves safe and not get pulled in again. But, inevitably, we do. Then we vow that this time, it's going to be different. This time, we're not going to make the same mistakes. And things seem wonderful--for a while. But more often than not, the same problems come up over and over. — Jed Diamond

PAUL: ...We're a very close family. We don't take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason. — Billy London

To live is to laugh, as to laugh is to live. — Tawna Jacobsen

Now I have to think about whether I shoved the condoms in the fridge with the scallops. — Tawna Fenske

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Her eyes met his, and he tried to remember if he'd ever seen such a deep shade of blue anywhere else. What was the word for it? Azure? Cobalt? Cerulean? Where was the fucking Crayola box when he needed it? — Tawna Fenske

But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily. — Saul Bellow

Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me. — Lyle Lovett

I want happiness. Stability. Some career milestones to be proud of, people around me who make me laugh, and the ability to go to bed each night and think, 'I made a difference for someone. — Tawna Fenske

When you share feelings instead of judgments, it compels people to relate to you. — Tawna Fenske

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination — Robert Green Ingersoll

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. — Scott Walker

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. — Edward Norton

How often does it work out that people make their checklists of what they want in a partner and then go out and fall for precisely that person? — Tawna Fenske

We're in our own world, and we're in the world that has been given us outside, and the problem is to achieve3 a harmonious relationship between the two. I come into this society, so I've got to live in terms of this society. It's ridiculous not to live in terms of this society because, unless I do, I'm not living. But I mustn't allow this society to dictate to me how I should live. One has to build up one's own system that may violate the expectations of the society, and sometimes society doesn't accept that. But the task of life is to live within the field provided by the society that is really supporting you. — Joseph Campbell

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. — George Saunders