Tonali Quotes & Sayings

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. — Bill Delahunt

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity. — Stacy Aumonier

When the Byzantine emperor Isaac Angelus demanded it for the Orthodox, Saladin decided that they must share it under his supervision and appointed Sheikh Ghanim al-Khazraji as Custodian of the Church, a role still performed today by his descendants, the Nusseibeh family. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Ambition is your own yoke, not His! And the lust of wealth, the desire for power, the craving for human love - all that is a yoke of your own making - and if you will wear it, it will gall you. There is more joy in being unknown than in being known and there is less care in having no wealth than in having much of it. We often go the wrong way to work in seeking true restfulness and happiness. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason. — Sheena Iyengar

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. — Ray Bradbury

Only very coarse persons wanted wars. — Pearl S. Buck

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title. — Layne Staley

As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded. — Tom Paxton

There are ... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring
that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?! — Bill Maher

[A writer] cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it. — Albert Camus

The story is the story is the story. — Heather O'Brien

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete. — Alex Kapranos