Thackara Quotes & Sayings

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers. — Rob Payne

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. — Liev Schreiber

En voiture, Monsieur,' said the Wagon Lit conductor. — Agatha Christie

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that. — Anthony Doerr

Thunder rolled ... It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled ... It rolled a six. — Terry Pratchett

On the plane ride to Ethiopia, doubts had plagued my thoughts. What are you doing leaving your children for two weeks? Why go all the way to Africa to help the poor? Why you? For this exact moment, answered a voice in my spirit. I crossed the room, held her hand, and, bending near, whispered life-giving Scripture. In that moment love was as elemental to life as breath. Love is extending my hand, sharing a prayer, and, sometimes, leaving all I've ever known to find what I truly have to give. — Gary Chapman

We understand each other, Jensen. Who else would ever understand us and love us as much as we do? — Maya Banks

But you are a solace just by existing, vividly in my thoughts if not here before me. — Joyce Carol Oates

My true self contains every possibility. — Deepak Chopra

The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus and of how each force affects the others. Designers often miss a great deal in their educations about the real people who will use and inhabit their work. Thackara astutely illuminates a lot of what designers don't know they're missing. — Nathan Shedroff

To mee, who with eternal Famine pine,
Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven,
There best, where most with ravin I might meet;
Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems
To stuff this Maw, this vast unhide-bound Corpse. — John Milton

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone. — Ellie Goulding

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin. — Edwin Louis Cole