Tollemaches Quotes & Sayings

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away. — Jim Abbott

Everything has a beginning, or needs one, and if the beginning's identifiable but not dramatic enough, it needs to be deidentified - located elsewhere. — Joshua Cohen

Why not imagine yourself successful? — Maxwell Maltz

And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. When I tell my own story I have no such aid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Dany nibbled at an onion and reflected ruefully on the faithlessness of men. — George R R Martin

What the Earthers had discovered is that when people have nothing else to do, they have babies. — James S.A. Corey

If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it". — Anne Carson

In secrecy, in silence, a whole race may be destroyed without notice. Whole cultures and species have been destroyed while men smiled and spoke of economics, of employment, of progress, of the welfare of mankind. Is a threat less deadly because it does not scream and rage and threaten force of arms? — Sheri S. Tepper

For heaven's sake, don't turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined appointment with an elliptical trainer of the mind in which you count words or pages the way some people fix their attention on the "calories burned" readout - some assiduous and taxing exercise that allows you to look back on your conquest of Middlemarch with grim satisfaction. How depressing. This kind of thing is not reading at all, but what C. S. Lewis once called "cosmical and ethical hygiene. — Alan Jacobs

There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end. — Virginia Woolf

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying. — Lynn Davies

Be yourself
it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else. — Ethel Merman

It's part of us," she said jerkily. "How could I not want part of us? It's your baby.I'm carrying your baby and I love it so much already it terrifies me."
"Oh,Diana." He touched her then, gently, his hands on her face. "You've let two weeks go by when we could have been terrified together. — Nora Roberts

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis