Teppic Quotes & Sayings

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced ... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. — Meladee McCarty

Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives. — Daisaku Ikeda

The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his body aches, his mind is full of pictures of leaves and sky; he does not want to read documents. His miseries, his perplexities have receded, and they will tay away, provided
after food and wine, laughter and exchange of storeis
he gets up at dawn to do it all over again.
But the winter king, less occupied, will begin to think about his conscience. — Hilary Mantel

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. — Saadi

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE. — Gerry Lindgren

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'll be good. I promise. I'll be the best damn friend you've ever had. — Abbi Glines

What can I say? Science is made of people, and people can be stupid. — Emily Nagoski

A circle has no end. — Isaac Asimov

Teppic stared into his wine mug. These men are philosophers, he thought. They had told him so. So their brains must be so big that they have room for ideas that no-one else would consider for five seconds. — Terry Pratchett

Teppic had learned how not to move stealthily. Millions of years of being eaten by creatures that know how to move stealthily has made humanity very good at spotting stealthy movement. Nor was it enough to make no noise, because little moving patches of silence always aroused suspicion. The trick was to glide through the night with a quiet reassurance, just like the air did. There — Terry Pratchett

I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind. — Amy Hatvany

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan. — Emeril Lagasse

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. I — Terry Pratchett

Maybe that proves I was right about books and people: books are fantastic and probably come into their own in a cabin in the woods, but how fun is it to read a fantastic book if you can't tell others about it, talk about it, quote from it constantly? — Katarina Bivald

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. — Oscar Hammerstein II

My father's in commerce," said Chidder, as they passed through the archway. "That's fascinating," said Teppic dutifully. He felt quite broken by all these new experiences, and added, "I've never been to Commerce, but I understand they're very fine people. — Terry Pratchett

Teppic hadn't been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff. — Terry Pratchett

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing. — Sarah McLachlan

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. — Brian Ferneyhough