Tendence 2020 Quotes & Sayings

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. — Julie Christie

All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was a talking book. — Sofia Samatar

Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is
it's always been built on compromise. — Bill Vaughan

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only. — Anthony Trollope

I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship. — Rumi

[Redacted] felt a certain heaviness descend upon his shoulders and a loneliness rise to his throat, and instead of embracing the familial moment, he turned away, overwhelmed by it. — Lisa McMann

We are singing pilgrims, though the way be rough. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!"
That silenced him for a few moments.
Then he said - very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling!"
"I can't," said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain leaf!"
And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web. — Diana Gabaldon

The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it. — Misty Copeland

Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry?
Have they? — Catherynne M Valente

There is no god." I've said that sentence on Glenn Beck's TV show in front of his live audience at his studio in the Texas Bible Belt. I've told Republicans that I like immigrants. I've told Democrats that I dig rich people. I've told sane people that I like lawyers. But — Penn Jillette