Tobring Quotes & Sayings

I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window opens only partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. So. — Margaret Atwood

But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work. — Stefan Zweig

Craziness is what happens when there is no one left to whom you can tell the truth. You are left with all of it, alone. — Ann Wadsworth

It's called the Sugar Heights Association. You know, one of those neighborhood things. They fight over the zoning regulations when they don't like em and make sure everyone in the neighborhood keeps to a certain . . . uh, standard, I guess you'd say. There are lots of rules. Like you can put up white lights at Christmas but not colored ones. And they can't blink. — Stephen King

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. — Brit Hume

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms. — David Dreman

I look much more civilized than I actually am. — Georgina Chapman

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale. — Anne McCaffrey

What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue? — Richard Dawkins

The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera. — Charles Nelson Reilly

Tell me what you need," he said between raining soft kisses against my hair, temple, and cheek. "I'll do anything for you. — Penny Reid

Darkness is the absence of light. — Kamal Ravikant

These days if I ate three bites of a Blizzard, that Blizzard would turn into a tornado of farts. — Mamrie Hart

Now we cannot ... discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, You must do this. I can't. — C.S. Lewis

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous. — Elbert Hubbard

When I certify a student at any level of diving, I ask myself if that person is capable of self-rescue and capable of buddy-rescue in conditions similar to or perhaps worse those of their certification level. I can sign them off on their behavior and performance at a given level, but must rely on them to continue to make good choices in the future. — Jill Heinerth

I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names. — Abraham Lincoln