Tohrment And Autumn Quotes & Sayings

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt. — Melody Beattie

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge. — Democritus

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating. — Madeleine Thien

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. — B.F. Skinner

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women. — Aime Martin

Last words are a kindness and I am not feeling kind. — Heather Demetrios

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it. — Lloyd Alexander

I just want to see those I love smiling and happy. — Ichirou Ohkouchi

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,
not being inclined to change my dress,
to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe. — Henry David Thoreau

Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question ... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?' — Andrew Lo

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one. — Benicio Del Toro

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted.
But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?
Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage. — Louise Penny

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral ... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since. — Stuart Rose