Tolan Quotes & Sayings

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan

If national interest comes before our common humanity," Dalia said, "then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything!" One — Sandy Tolan

This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn't be more timely and important. — David McCullough

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through.
Z. Applewhite. — Stephanie S. Tolan

I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors. — Denis Leary

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are. — A.S. Byatt

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history. — Sandy Tolan

Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore. — Dick Houston

They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them from the poem - STAY in the Book - RidingTheEscalator — Jay Woodman

Deciding to kiss Jake is like standing on the edge of a pool, staring down and wanting to take the leap, but fearing how cold the water will be.
I hold my breath and jump. — Hannah Harrington

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin

The Lemon Tree
Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews — Sandy Tolan

The act of planting was thus an act of faith and patience. — Sandy Tolan

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource. — Stephanie S. Tolan

Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) alongside Bashir's love of Arde Falastin (Land of Palestine). — Sandy Tolan

The bilateral illusion of unilateral attention was almost infantilely gratifying from an emotional standpoint: you got to believe you were receiving somebody's complete attention without having to return it. Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able to both lie and to trust other people at the same time. — David Foster Wallace

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law. — Theodore Roosevelt

By now the dream of immediate return had transformed into the reality of long-term struggle. The Palestinians had begun to understand that their return would not come about through diplomatic pressure. — Sandy Tolan

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better. — Stephanie S. Tolan

It was a universal welcome - Make yourself at home; Mi casa es su casa; Ahlan wa-sahlan; Baruch habah — Sandy Tolan

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside. — Stephanie S. Tolan

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy? — Hannah Harrington

With technology and everything, compact discs are going to be, like, vintage soon, right? The way vinyl is now. Like, if I ever have kids, they're going to look at CDs and think, 'What is this crap, geez, how clunky.' By then everyone will have the fiftieth edition of iPods - or maybe they'll just have music downloaded directly into their brains, like with microchips, or something. And I'll be the old lady in the corner going, 'Back when I was a kid, we had mix tapes, and floppy disks, and gas didn't cost twenty bucks a gallon, and oh, yeah, MTV actually played music videos, if you can believe it.' And they'll probably say, 'Oh, Mom, you and your stories, we're jetting to the oxygen bar, see you later,' and take off in their flying cars. You know there'll be flying cars, it's only a matter of time. — Hannah Harrington

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. — Johann Caspar Lavater

The "spectacular" operations of the PFLP, meanwhile, began to attract legions of young Europeans, who saw in the airline hijackings a willingness to risk everything to achieve liberation. This was a time not only of cold war, but of revolution, inspired in part by massive and worldwide street protests against — Sandy Tolan

There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way. — Hannah Harrington

Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly. — Tim Pat Coogan

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right? — Andre Ethier

Just do this because it's the thing in front of you. — Kathleen Tolan