Tibino Quotes & Sayings

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to. — Robert Charles Wilson

This great artist is a man whose life-time is consumed by struggle : partly against material circumstances, partly against incomprehension, partly against himself ... In no other culture has the artist been thought of in this way. Why then in this culture? We have already referred to the exigencies of the open art market. But the struggle was not only to live. Each time a painter realized that he was dissatisfied with the limited role of painting as a celebration of material property and of the status that accompanied it, he inevitably found himself struggling with the very language of his own art as understood by the tradition of his calling.
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Every exceptional work was the result of a prolonged successful struggle. Innumerable works involved no struggle. There were also prolonged yet unsuccessful struggles. (P.104) — John Berger

If I am your shadow [...,] it is only because you are my light. And the one cannot exist without the other.
~Draco — Claire

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. — Thomas Moore

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions. — Joshua L. Liebman

After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more. — Flannery O'Connor

I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I married him. My first husband and I moved to Janesville, Wis., where he worked in a Chrysler plant. — Diane Hendricks

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. — Peter Davison

The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea. — Christopher Harman

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another? — Fay Wray