Tera Attitude Quotes & Sayings

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie Snow

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands — Simon Van Booy

In the morning the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the aftermath, a green smell, a smell of shredded leaves and oozing resin, of crushed wood and splashed sap, a tart smell, which bore some relation to the smell of bitten apples. It was the smell of death and destruction, and it smelled fresh and lively and hopeful. — A.S. Byatt

Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, 'I am killing him?all for the passing pleasure it brings me.' And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me. — Paul McCartney

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train. — Martha Griffiths

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves."
Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion? — Becca Fitzpatrick

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus - zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above - easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it. — Diana Gabaldon

They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time ... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life ...
God gives us time. And who has time for God?
Which makes no sense. — Ann Voskamp

hope my country will never become an uncomfortable place for the unbeliever, as it could easily become if prayer was made one of the requirements of the accredited citizen. — E.B. White

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes — Jake LaMotta

I am a stranger at a cocktail party. — Harper Lee

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it. — Mike Royer

Staying quiet and fitting in may have been all the first generations of women who entered corporate America could do; in some cases, it might still be the safest path. But this strategy is not paying off for women as a group. Instead, we need to speak out, identify the barriers that are holding women back, and find solutions. — Sheryl Sandberg

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. — George Washington