Tobi Lou Quotes & Sayings

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed. — Chris Matakas

Going about one's native land one is inclined to take many things for granted, roads and buildings, roofs, windows and doorways, the walls that shelter strangers, the house one has never entered, trees which are like other trees, pavements which are no more than cobblestones. But when we are distant from them we find that those things have become dear to us, a street, trees and roofs, blank walls, doors and windows; we have entered those houses without knowing it, we have left something of our heart in the very stonework. Those places we no longer see, perhaps will never see again but still remember, have acquired and aching charm; they return to us with the melancholy of ghosts, a hallowed vision and as it were the true face of France. We love and evoke them such as they were; and such as to us they still are, we cling to them and will not have them altered, for the face of our country is our mother's face. — Victor Hugo

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies — Jodi Picoult

Run," he whispered. "Run."
"No, Rand," I said, brushing the dirt from his face. "I'm tired of running."
"Forgive me, please." He clutched my hand as his eyes beseeched me through tears of pain.
"You're forgiven."
He sighed once, then stopped breathing. The shine in his brown eyes dulled. I pulled his hood over his head. — Maria V. Snyder

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity. — Brennan Manning

He might be a bad boy, but even bad boys can be broken. — C.M. Stunich

The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business. — Danny Meyer

The distance between what you know and don't is your mission.
The distance between what you do and should is your task.
The distance between what you say and ought is your responsibility.
The distance between who you are and should be is your assignment. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there. — Ruth Reichl

If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that? — Nathan Myhrvold

The events of my birth...and finally of my death are not accomplished in me or for me. The affective weight of my life as a whole does not exist for me. Only the Other is in possession of the values of the being of a given person. — Mikhail Bakhtin

It is the fate of operating systems to become free. — Neal Stephenson

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. — Leonardo Da Vinci