Tiyamba Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the most magical thing in this world the amount of which remains the same, even after distributing it amongst innumerable unhappy people. — Munia Khan

The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath. — Jose Saramago

The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that, very soon, sixty-four packs of crayons will include the color Sky Brown — Cuthbert Soup

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!
Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!
what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore. — Matthew Arnold

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states. — Baron Vaughn

Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs. — Margaret Atwood

Shame is a hunter. I — Ruta Sepetys

Newsflash: every relationship a person has ends in failure, save for one. Maybe two if you count getting remarried after they kick off, but the point is, we all go in with a ninety-whatever percent failure rate. — Drew Hayes

While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain. — Robert Winston

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news. — George Saunders

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.) — Aristotle.

Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations.
Your expectations determine your attitude.
Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people.
And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you. — Brian Tracy

What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you
yourself, in your uniqueness
to reclaim the full measure of your true nature. — Martha Beck

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself. — Bruce Springsteen