Tempstick Quotes & Sayings

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them. — Fanny Burney

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music. — Aaron Zigman

Cry for the soul that will not face the body as an equal place. — Dory Previn

There's a note on the door: "Dear kind person, Please don't look for valuables here. We never had any. Use whatever you want, but don't trash the place. We'll be back." I saw signs on other houses in different colors - "Dear house, forgive us!" People said goodbye to their homes like they were people. Or they'd written: "we're leaving in the morning," or, "we're leaving at night," and they'd put the date and even the time. There were notes written on school notebook paper: "Don't beat the cat. Otherwise the rats will eat everything." And then in a child's handwriting: "Don't kill our Zhulka. She's a good cat." [Closes his eyes.] — Svetlana Alexievich

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is. — Elizabeth Strout

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not. — Benjamin Franklin