Tawnys Take Quotes & Sayings

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it. — Joel Salatin

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. — Grover Cleveland

For they conquer who believe they can. — Virgil

The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions. — Roque Dalton

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs. — Jim Morrison

Being beautiful in itself, youth needs no transfiguration: in its abundance of strong life it is drawn to the tragic, and is happy to let melancholy suck sweetly from its still inexperienced bloom, and the very same phenomenon accounts for the readiness of young people to face danger and reach out a fraternal hand to all spiritual suffering — Stefan Zweig

To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them — A.W. Tozer

There was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day. — Julie Anne Long

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am. — Lee Tergesen

Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse. — J.G. Ballard

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind. — Bernard Lewis

How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things which are not. — John Keats

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified. — Thad Cochran

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those? — Mel Gibson