Tenian Quotes & Sayings

Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can't think yourself well. You can't make yourself fall out of love. — Sarah Addison Allen

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. — John Stuart Mill

O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood. — Celia Thaxter

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary. — Elizabeth Bowen

Contention, like a horse,
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him. — William Shakespeare

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter - that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed. — Nelson A. Miles

Met a girl the other nite and told her- Before you can be with someone you have to know the value of yourself. So does $200 seem reasonable? — Bob Saget

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string. — Brandon Stanton

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. — James Payn