Tering Quotes & Sayings

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature. — Richard Dawkins

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence ... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president. — Mario Cuomo

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart? — Richard Russo

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else. — Mason Cook

At the turn of the century, parishioners attacked vaudeville as a sinful venture. Organized boycotts adversely affected ticket sales. Benjamin Franklin Keith's wife was deeply religious and prodded her husband to follow church directives. Comedian Fred Allen said, 'Mrs. Keith instigated the chaste policy, for she would tolerate no profanity, no suggestive allusions, double-entendres or off-color monkey business. — Kliph Nesteroff

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity. — Philip Massinger

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. — Henry Ford

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand. — Benjamin Walker

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Ye have done much to bring about the indescribable return. May ye go mad quickly and not be devoured. — H.P. Lovecraft

What did the lawyer say?" I couldn't stop the little snicker that slipped out as I sat back up in the seat and laced my fingers behind my head.
"Before or after I kissed her?"
"Zeb!" My mom gave me a hard look and my sister just shook her head. — Jay Crownover

When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing? — Patricia Briggs

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word. — Prince Philip

Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive without you, Eva. — Sylvia Day

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood. — Sun Tzu

[Time is] a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working hard not to spill one single drop. — Anthony Doerr