Tchakounte Quotes & Sayings

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

Conscience works less well collectively. Compared to individuals, a group is less free to self-correct its morality. It follows from this idea that the self-interested righteousness and imperialism of a nation, driven by cabals of power, are even more pronounced than the same tendencies in individuals. — Richard Crouter

For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory? — George Orwell

I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, "I can't get into this, it's all about girls." I thought to myself, "Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying." — Wendy Wasserstein

If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. — Madeleine L'Engle

Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff. — Stephenie Meyer

She was partial to emeralds; she said they were the single thing that remained constant, always green, always the same ... My mother had been right, it was one thing that lasted, the one thing we could depend on. Other than our love for each other, it was all we had right now. — Alice Hoffman

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well. — Jurgen Moltmann

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. — Confucius

When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?" — Rob McElhenney

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin. — Mallory Ortberg