Thungs Quotes & Sayings

...time is not a willing captive. The days pass too soon, slipping through my fingers like sand. I grab for a moment, only to find it is no longer there. I take a photo with my mind, only to find it is already fading. — Maria Goodin

She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me. — Kate Pullinger

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic. — Buzz Aldrin

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care. — Jack Kornfield

Hold a positive thought of an enlightened person in your mind. When that thought touches their aura, it comes back quickly with a positive lift. You will go up. — Frederick Lenz

For myself, I would rather not write history than write it for the purpose of following the prejudices and passions of the times.

Here, someone makes the Capetians descend from the Merovingians; there, someone else has it that the name very Christian has always been applied to the {French} princes.

They don't form a system after reading history; they begin with the system and then search for the proofs. — Montesquieu

My breasts are small," I said in a whisper, but immediately despised myself because it sounded as if I were making excuses, excuse me if I can't offer you big tits, I hope you enjoy yourself anyway, idiot that I was, if he liked little tits, good; if not, the worse for him, it was all free, a stroke of luck had fallen to this shit, the best birthday present he could hope for, at his age. — Elena Ferrante

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst. — Gaston Bachelard

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. — Oscar Micheaux

Trains are great dirty smokey thungs", said Will. "You won't like it."
Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"
"I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it."
"But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa ... — Cassandra Clare

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night — J.M. Barrie

At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely. — Heidi Priebe