Tobelife Quotes & Sayings

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads. — Elaine Morgan

What man is capable of the insane self-conceit of believing that an eternity of himself would be tolerable even to himself? Those who try to believe it postulate that they shall be
made perfect first. But if you make me perfect I shall no longer be myself, nor will it be possible for me to conceive my present imperfections (and what I cannot conceive I cannot remember); so that you may just as well give me a new name and face the fact that I am a new person and that the old Bernard Shaw is as dead as mutton. Thus,oddly enough, the conventional belief in the matter comes to this: that if you wish to live for ever you must be wicked enough to be irretrievably damned, since the saved are no longer what they were, and in hell alone do people retain their sinful nature: that is to say, their individuality. And this sort of hell, however convenient as a means of intimidating persons who have practically no honor and no conscience, is not a fact. — George Bernard Shaw

When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay. — Georgia Cates

All this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips ... — John Geddes

If you are in a situation where you can turn an opportunity into something great, grab that chance. — Jack Canfield

My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde. — Jack Wagner

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare. — Winfried Vahland

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw

Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry. — Edward Gibbon

I think it's interesting to speak when you have something to say. — Delphine Arnault

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it. — Rumi

He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him. — Derek Landy

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself ... the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement. — Percy Lubbock

To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them. — Robert F. Perkins