Tendencies Def Quotes & Sayings

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun. — Jim Henson

Small things start us in new ways of thinking — V.S. Naipaul

Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me. — David Levithan

Count your blessings, not your worries. — Alexandra Monir

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.
Mon Semblable — Stephen Dunn

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you. — Ellis Peters

Damen felt it then, the first dizzy edge of new emotion, and he let go his hold of Laurent like a man fearing a precipice; and yet was helpless. — C.S. Pacat

People are messy, unpredictable things. — Mary Roach

Isolation is a gradual form of torture. — Pete Kahle

You're not to say or do anything sexual. You will also not swear or be rude to me."
"I often blurt things out before I think. It's not always intentional. — Marita A. Hansen

I don't know whether it will be read by everyone, but it is meant for everyone. It addresses England as well as Spain, Italy as well as France, Germany as well as Ireland, the republics that harbour slaves as well as empires that have serfs. Social problems go beyond frontiers. Humankind's wounds, those huge sores that litter the world, do not stop at the blue and red lines drawn on maps. Wherever men go in ignorance or despair, wherever women sell themselves for bread, wherever children lack a book to learn from or a warm hearth, Les Miserables knocks at the door and says, 'Open up, I am here for you. — Victor Hugo

When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world. — Kishore Bansal

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. — Jared Diamond