Tobons Quotes & Sayings

[death] ... the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return — George Washington

Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time. — Marc Marcel

Abandoned houses seldom turn out to be as empty as they appear. Voices fade, but echoes linger, intimately, sinking from room to room. And sometimes figures emerge from those shadows, if only in dreams. What could be more profoundly idiosyncratic than our nightmares? Always, there has been something personal about ghost stories. How surprising is it that so many concern writers in torment? — Robert Dunbar

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see. — Donna Tartt

The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies! — Elisa Paige

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. — John Sergeant Wise

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves. — William James

You ... see us ... and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history. — Carlos Bulosan

Some teach "universalism" - that eventually everybody will be saved and the God of love will never send anyone to hell. They believe the words "eternal" or "everlasting" do not actually mean forever. However, the same word which speaks of eternal banishment from God is also used for the eternity of heaven. — Billy Graham

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one. — Simone De Beauvoir

The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them ... The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say ... — Harlan F. Stone

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe. — Joe Rogan

Unless we suppress our conscience, we naturally know basic moral truths. General virtues and vices, Thomas Reid wrote, "must appear self-evident to every man who has a conscience, and has taken the pains to exercise this natural power of his mind" ("Of Morals"). — Anonymous