Tencine Quotes & Sayings

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. — Philip Warren Anderson

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one. — Mahatma Gandhi

GENERALLY PEOPLE LIKE TO MOVE ON, Death hinted. THEY LOOK FORWARD TO AN AFTERLIFE. "I Will Stay Here, Please." HERE? THERE'S NOTHING TO DO HERE, said Death. "Yes, I Know," said the ghost of the golem. "It Is Perfect. I Am Free. — Terry Pratchett

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste. — Willie Brown

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty. — Paul Parker

Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since!
How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it!
There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it! — Georgette Heyer

Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness. — Sarah Manguso

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman

The sage puts herself last and is first. — Lao-Tzu

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand. — Jeffrey R. Holland

If you don't take your work seriously enough for proper editing, why should anyone take your book seriously enough to buy? — Mark Stone