Tommyrot Etymology Quotes & Sayings

This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again. — Walter Savage Landor

All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek. — Ken Blanchard

The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. — Henry David Thoreau

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life. — Anna Quindlen

When I told my mother about them, she said she had similar attacks, and that they did no harm and lasted only a few minutes. With this, I started to look forward to my occasional attacks, wondering what might happen in the next one — Oliver Sacks

There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the Western diseases; in countries where people eat a pound or more of vegetables and fruits a day, the rate of cancer is half what is in the United States. — Michael Pollan

No act of killing can be justified. — Thich Nhat Hanh

....the challenge in following childrens' conversational twists is the leading cause of brain-cell loss in mothers. — Candice Speare Prentice

Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work ... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance. — Tertullian

We will get home full of others people shame.
What are we saying is what we did see.
And what did we do?
We acted blind and we moved on.
That is not the gospel. — David Levithan

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. — Mike Leigh

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance. — Milton Friedman