Tcheser Quotes & Sayings

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must. — Julian Baggini

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now. — William Glasser

One small spark was all it took to light up pitch darkness. — Bella Forrest

Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission ... were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable. — Jonathan Edwards

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die. — Shirley Hazzard

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing ... I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now. — Bruce Hornsby

Religion is a smile on a dog. — Edie Brickell

The future was painted on a canvas of infinite reach; it entailed too many connections and joinings. Change one and you changed others. No amount of insight would enable a single individual to decipher it all. — Terry Brooks

It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling! — Michael Buble

It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth. — Donald Barthelme

The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generation which will come after us and audit our accounts. — William T. Hornaday

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream. — Florence Welch

Cath turned down her phone and slid it into her bag. — Rainbow Rowell

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ... — Anne Tyler