Tongeret Quotes & Sayings

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. — Dante Alighieri

The rest of the family tree had a root system soggy with alcohol ... One aunt had fallen asleep with her face in the mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner; another's fondness for Coors was so unwavering that I can still remember the musky smell of the beer and the coldness of the cans. Most of the men drank the way all Texas men drank, or so I believed, which meant that they were tough guys who could hold their liquor until they couldn't anymore
a capacity that often led to some cloudy version of doom, be it financial ruin or suicide or the lesser betrayal of simple estrangement. Both social drinkers, my parents had eluded these tragic endings; in the postwar Texas of suburbs and cocktails, their drinking was routine but undramatic. — Gail Caldwell

It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words. — John Assaraf

I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them. — Doug Hoffman

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly. — Alan Dershowitz

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk. — John Updike

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. — Caitlin Moran

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand

Are you actually laughing at me? Seriously?" Janie rubs her hair with a towel. "I almost died out there. Plus my brain is now infested with plankton and carp shit. You'd better watch it, or I'll blow a snot rocket at you."
"I'm ... eww. That's disgusting." Cabe laughs. "But seriously, you really should have seen yourself. Right, Megan? I wish I had a video camera. — Lisa McMann

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti — Shavasti

As a solid mass of rock Is not moved by the wind, So a sage is not moved by praise and blame. — Joseph Goldstein

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast. — Carol Kane