Thien Tong Tan Quotes & Sayings

Virtue makes for a cold bed. — Ava Zavora

He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't tend to produce happiness or fulfilment without some sense of love to go with them. — Paul Torday

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
There was no satisfactory answer. — Jonas Salk

It's not what you're not sure of that gets you: It's when you just know it's okay, and you don't check. — S.J. Lewis

None are rash when they are not seen by anybody. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

Never be born, never be died. — Ted Berrigan

Not a woman, Gretchen corrected herself, a spirit. She glowed violently, outlined in frozen moonlight and fire. — Alyxandra Harvey

They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that. — Elizabeth Gilbert

No, she lies. Because she's polite enough to know that if someone gives you a book, you owe that person the pretense that you haven't read it. — Fredrik Backman

Stephen and the others at the table broke the bread in the baskets before them, and one of the others then prayed about a broken vessel, a perfect sacrifice. Words Linux knew he should have understood, because Stephen had spent their last two sessions explaining what would happen during the communion service. How they followed a pattern that had been set in place at their last meal with the Messiah during the Passover feast, the night before he had been taken from them. Linux knew all these things, yet he was unprepared for what was happening. Not there at the front table, as next the wine was poured and blessed and shared. No, what was happening inside him. — Janette Oke