Tomchei Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything. — Raul Seixas

Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework. — Udo Di Fabio

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism. — Lois Wyse

Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness. — Barney Rosset

(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place! — Al Gore

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch ... — David Letterman

I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job."
I almost swerved into oncoming traffic. — Richelle Mead

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us. — Derrick Jensen

People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that. — Haruki Murakami

Blessing is special attention God gives us — Sunday Adelaja

Now is rather a questionable one. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, — Arthur Conan Doyle

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. — Ludwig Von Mises

The greatness of work is inside man. — Pope John Paul II

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training. — Bruce Molsky

The world doesn't end in revolt and revolution ... it ends in apathy. — Nick Shamhart