Toforms Quotes & Sayings

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part. — Bob Keeshan

In addition to being flat-out hard to do, building effectiveness into an organization often comes into direct conflict with increasing efficiency. This is an unfortunate side effect of optimization, first noted by the geneticist R. A. Fisher, and now referred to as Fisher's fundamental theorem: "The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change." Fisher's example was the giraffe. It is highly adapted to food found up among the tree branches, but so unadaptable to a new situation that it can not even pick up a peanut from the ground at the zoo. The more optimized an organism (organization) is, the more likely that the slack necessary to help it become more effective has been eliminated. — Tom DeMarco

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us. — Pope Francis

Sometimes the real looks fake, especially when you've looked at the fake for so long. — Hugh Howey

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting. — Richard MacDonald

Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free. — David Jeremiah

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads. — Roseanne Barr

If you get to the end of your life and you have regrets that you could have done better, then you blew it. — Francis Slakey

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before? — Eugene Levy

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves — Confucius

Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty. — Tullian Tchividjian

Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light
a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not. — Deb Caletti

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that. — Hazel McCallion

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. — Sharon Creech

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer. — Peter Bichsel