Thornalley Quotes & Sayings

Pay no heed to your enemies' laugh. They won't be able to once you lob off their heads. — Christopher Paolini

I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko. — Haruki Murakami

Words, however, are things. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. — Christopher Morley

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray 'in spirit and in truth' enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which is at work behind the complexities and the intricacies of human existence. This does not mean fabricating for ourselves pious rationalizations to explain everything that happens. It involves no surreptitious manipulation of the hard truths of life. — Thomas Merton

It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want. — Y.S. Lee

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job. — Hamilton Leithauser

It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done. — Charles Dickens

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird. — David Duchovny

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money. — Andrew Carnegie

Our chiefs are killed ... The little children are freezing to death ... My people have no blankets, no food ... My heart is sick and sad ... I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, — Helen Harper

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well. — Ayn Rand