Tomblins Quotes & Sayings

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad. — John Ciardi

I have got airplanes, zeppelins and apparatus. — Drew Ali

Peace is not a place or destination but a perception.
Peace is not in wealth or splendor
But in conviction.
Peace is in friendship, love and unity.
Peace is in care, tranquility and serenity.
Peace is in compliment, appreciation and forgiveness.
Peace is the source of smile, joy and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later. — Spencer W. Kimball

A key legitimator is the perception that the system is set up in such a way that a person, and more importantly the person's adversaries, face a constant chance of being punished if they break the law, so that they all may internalize inhibitions against predation, preemptive attack, and vigilante retribution. — Steven Pinker

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother. — John Kennedy Toole

Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money. — Orison Swett Marden

Then we all drink. This is how the Dauntless mourn: by chasing grief into the oblivion of alcohol and leaving it there.
All right. Fine. I can chase it too. — Veronica Roth

How can it be alright? How can anything ever be alright when I can never tell you, never touch ... ? — L.A. Gilbert

You know what I remember most vividly from that hospital? There were creases in the pillowcase.
"I was in pain when they brought me in. They'd bandaged me up before transporting me, but they hand't had anything to deaden that kind of pain. So I wasn't clear in my head. I don't remember who was holding the stretcher, anything like that.
"But when they lifted me up, and I looked at the cot I'd be transferred to, even as they tipped me onto it, I noticed the creases in the pillowcase, and it was everything I could do not to cry. You get used to things being dusty and gritty and oily, you really do, but then, when there's something clean, something that's been folded carefully, and unfolded carefully and it's there for your head, it's like your heart, it's like I don't know, I can't describe it. — Alison Jean Lester

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up. — McKayla Maroney

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things. — W. Edwards Deming

Understanding is not absolutely final.
What's now right could be wrong later. — Toba Beta