Tersest Quotes & Sayings

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied. — Robert Nozick

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken. — Gwyneth Paltrow

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. — Henry David Thoreau

As she starts to speak, my mind is suddenly filled with every hot-teacher fantasy I've ever had. They're playing out in my mind right next to the ones about the seemingly sexually repressed librarian who's really a leather-wearing, handcuff-bearing nymphomaniac. — Emma Chase

Effective coaching builds awareness and removes the excuses. Coaching will help you replace those excuses and limiting beliefs with empowering dreams, and boost your self-confidence. Coaching can help you identify your values, discover your "why," set goals, increase your self-esteem, and find a balance in life and business. — Farshad Asl

But he hadn't appeared that night. Not the next morning, either. By the time she finally crossed paths with him the following afternoon, his mumbled "Merry Christmas" was the extent of their exchange.
It seemed they were back to silence.
I don't want you.
She tried to ignore the words echoing in her memory. They weren't true, she told herself. She was an expert at deceit; she knew a lie when she heard one.
Still. What else to believe, when he avoided her thus?
Although he rarely spoke to her over the next two days, Sophia frequently overheard him speaking of her. Even these remarks were the tersest of commands: "Fetch Miss Turner more water," or "See that her canopy doesn't go slack." She felt herself being tended, not unlike a goat. Fed, watered, sheltered. Perhaps she shouldn't complain. Food, water, and shelter were all welcome things.
But Sophia was not livestock, and she had other, more profound needs. Needs he seemed intent on neglecting, the infuriating man. — Tessa Dare

Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity, or intimidation. — Paulo Coelho

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly. — J.I. Packer

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,
Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,
Who will keep the world from death?
Who will stop the coming night?
Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight. — Madeleine L'Engle

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather. — Santosh Kalwar

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church. — Pope Francis

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned. — Bill Bryson

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute. — Jim Thome