Tiereads Quotes & Sayings

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant. — William Shakespeare

The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War. — Tom Wolfe

What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose. — Nell Gavin

The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. — Pat Conroy

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost. — Marty Rubin

I have a penis," Josh announced out of the blue, pointing down into the water.

"That's because you're a boy," I explained sagely.

"Does Uncle Adam have a penis?"

"Oh yeah," I said with a smile. Adam looked up at me and tried not to laugh.

"Does Elmo have a penis?"

"Uh, well..." He had stumped me. — N.M. Silber

I'm not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it's just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it! — Evelyne Brochu

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. — T. S. Eliot

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

of Jesus Christ and my relationship to Him and remember that the One who created the universe can do anything. I also have evidence - my own experience - that God can do anything, because He changed me. From age 14, I began to focus on the future. My mother's lessons - and those of several of my teachers - were at last paying off. — Ben Carson

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings. — William Macneile Dixon

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away. — Sean O'Casey

. . . I spent much of my youth wondering about the verticality of my own biological progenitors. So that when I reached the age of majority, I set out to discover who they were, only to uncover a shameful parade of bastards, miscreants, and foolhardy eccentrics — Gary Anderson