Toesca 1929 Quotes & Sayings

Thunderstorms were what death, and dramatic events, generally should be like, but usually were not; the idea that our life's dramas rarely look as dramatic as they are. Our most cataclysmic moments are typically free of gravitas, of necessary thunder; a person dies, but instead of the sky darkening and lightning striking, the sun continues to shine and the birds to sing. — Alain De Botton

Information upon points of practical politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! — Nguyen Van Thieu

Love, and you shall be loved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. — Christopher Hitchens

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. — Barbara Kruger

and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us - some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again. — Julie Schumacher

Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact. — Arthur C. Clarke

Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless. — Greg Keyes

I never listened to country music growing up. — Deana Carter

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down. — David Levithan

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. — Todd Tiahrt

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top. — Clayton Christensen

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot. — Karl Ove Knausgard

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing. — Richard Bandler