Tomarle Quotes & Sayings

I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure. — Ben Lerner

No one can tell if I'm laughing or weeping.
I wonder myself. — Rumi

It's in your eyes. I've done what I thought was impossible. I made you love me, but not in the way I needed. You love me as your friend. — Brodi Ashton

The prince shrugged. Who needs magic when you look this good? — Victoria Schwab

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know. — Nathan Shedroff

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore

Make for yourself a definition or description of the thing that is presented to you, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its entirety, and tell yourself its proper name and the names of the things of which it has been compounded and into which it will be resolved. For nothing so promotes elevation of mind as the ability to examine methodically and truly every object that is presented to you in life, and always to look at things so as to see at the same time what kind of universe this is, and what kind of use everything performs in it, and what value everything has with reference to the whole, and what with reference to man, who is a citizen of the highest city, of which all other cities are like families; what each thing is, its composition and duration, and what virtue I need bring to it, such as gentleness, manliness, truth, fidelity, simplicity, contentment, and the rest. — Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear. — Bernard Malamud

In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think. — Tom Scharpling

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant. — E.L. Doctorow

A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that unanticipated developments often lead to unintended consequences. — Diane Ravitch

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time. — George W. Bush