Tempelhoff Quotes & Sayings

Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency. — Daniel O'Brien

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows. — John Locke

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture. — Demi Moore

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain. — Aristotle.

Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion. — Seth Shostak

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world. — Timothy Dalton

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Drop your weapons once and they will dig you in to the grave forever. — Ameya Agrawal

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. — Alex Tabarrok

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate. — Vincent Nichols

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them. — Meredith Belbin

nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How — Marcel Proust

I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying. — Marie Kondo

Flattery will get you everywhere — Maya Banks