Tirra Lirra By The River Quotes & Sayings

the soul has words as petals — Edmond Jabes

Going down is a greater experience than going up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine. — Kate Clinton

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job. — Joanie Connell

That is how sin works. Having nothing in itself by which to convince, on what other resources but good and truth can it draw to make itself attractive and plausible? We must use the natural law to recognize the abuse of the natural law; there is nothing else to use. — J. Budziszewski

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up. — Thomas A. Edison

Positivity is the assassin of negativity. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled. — Dave Davies

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there ... it can make it anywhere!' — Bill Maher

Sometimes the path to a more beautiful relationship with people we love requires a willingness to accede to non-evil requests that we do not consider to be wise. Why? Since we have authority to grant the request, a withholding of the request can be misinterpreted and damage the relationship irreparably. The decision to put aside our misgivings and grant the non-evil request can, however, enable the other person come to a realization of the wisdom of our opinion and our love for them, resulting in the most beautiful relationships we can imagine. — Oghenovo Obrimah

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance. — Robert Breault

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. — Bill Vaughan

The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. For this reason, great changes, even in the field of science, are always preceded by a certain carnival consciousness that prepares the way. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Now the maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus; as fire, which is the maximum heat, is the cause of all hot things. Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God. — Thomas Aquinas

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. — Thomas De Quincey