Thara Quotes & Sayings

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess — Billy Joe Shaver

There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it. — John Blanchard

It was a crying shame! — Ru Freeman

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly? — Niall Ferguson

I lower my chin to smell the shirt again. I want to wear this forever, without washing it. His dark, spicy aroma consumes the material. I peek at him from the corner of my eye, wondering if he spots me catching a whiff or if he knows how addicting his scent is to girls. — Katie McGarry

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play, — George R R Martin

No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. — Cormac McCarthy

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my sleep. — Pablo Neruda

Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations. — Sue Monk Kidd

My Grandfather was a drunk, my father was a drunk... I am a drunk. I drink to forget the pain of life. — Mark Worrall

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. — Heraclitus

I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my life, which had suddenly been thrown open and out of which came an air of a keenness I had never breathed and of a taste stronger than wine. I had heard all my days of apparitions, but it was a different thing to have seen one and to know that I should in all likelihood see it familiarly, as I might say, again. I was on the lookout for it as a pilot for the flash of a revolving light and ready to generalise on the sinister subject, to answer for it to all and sundry that ghosts were much less alarming and much more amusing than was commonly supposed. There's no doubt that I was much uplifted. I couldn't get over the distinction conferred on me, the exception - in the way of mystic enlargement of vision - made in my favour.
("Sir Edmund Orme") — Henry James

Help other people ,help themselves — Yanis Yingnan JI

When I get to the part about Jess kissing me on the Fourth of July and taking me to her beach house,I look at my father and wonder what it is like, seeing people only through a wall of glass. Never touching them. — Carolee Dean

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating. — Moby