Tishana Griffith Quotes & Sayings

A book is the only immortality — Rufus Choate

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. — Andre Maurois

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. — Jamie Dimon

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. — Joan Baez

Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;-the philosophers and the scientists. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference. — Lord Chesterfield

Maybe there's something mistaken in this desire men have to instruct us; I was young at the time, and I didn't realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn't like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn't want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew how to be not only a man in the right way but also a woman. And today when he no longer senses me as part of himself, he feels betrayed. I — Elena Ferrante

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. — Elizabeth Hurley

If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith. — Jane Austen

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. — Thomas Piketty

A name is only what others want you to believe." He pauses, hoping that the pause will let the meaning sink in. "I am what I am, not what others would have you believe." Martel smiles. "And a pleasant evening to you all. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring. — Michelle Obama

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience. — Gillian Linscott

Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies. — Chila Woychik