Tekkai Quotes & Sayings

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth. — Orson Scott Card

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence. — Sean Bean

Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. — Rosalind Kaplan

Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn't have anyone following them is just out for a walk. — John C. Maxwell

Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings ... they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion. — Lewis B. Smedes

I begin to get sad around noon time, — Haruki Murakami

Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government. — Antonin Scalia

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible. — Mairead Corrigan

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning. — Charles Bukowski

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do. — August Alsina

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance. — Philippa Gregory

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. — Jimmy Connors

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC. — Paul Dano

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. — Louis L'Amour

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden