Tissage Quotes & Sayings

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks. — George MacDonald

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mma Ramotswe found it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have no people. There were, she knew, those who had no others in this life, who had no uncles, or aunts, or distant cousins of any degree; people who were just themselves. Many white people were like that, for some unfathomable reason; they did not seem to want to have people and were happy to be just themselves. How lonely they must be
like spacemen deep in space, floating in darkness, but without even that silver, unfurling cord that linked the astronauts to their little metal womb of oxygen and warmth. For a moment, she indulged the metaphor, and imagined the tiny white van in space, slowly spinning against a background of stars and she, Mma Ramotswe, of the No. 1 Ladies' Space Agency, floating weightless, head over heels, tied to the tiny white van with a thin washing line. — Alexander McCall Smith

They crossed the Mondego and Dao rivers to Viseu and headed south to Coimbra and Leiria. — Robert Wilson

For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion
that great engine of ignorance and bigotry
a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools. — Sam Harris

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. — Thomas Carlyle

Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution — Anonymous

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing. — Gary Player

If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living? — Cheryl Rainfield

They were not in the least deterred when a celebrated Washington humorist claimed that his calculations proved that the world ended on December 31, 1999 - but that everyone had had too much of a hangover to notice. — Arthur C. Clarke