Tonini Church Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels. — John Lancaster Spalding

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go. — Neil Marshall

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both. — Deepak Chopra

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!
-Bacchus — Rick Riordan

Ronan was always saying that he never lied, but he wore a liar's face. — Maggie Stiefvater

I am here, forever, to protect you. To help you, to love you. To keep you happy. It was an oath that every elf knew, but never had to say. There was no prompt. At a certain age, two elves of nearly the same name would meet. Then one would say the oath, simply because they felt compelled to. It was more than a promise; it was a feeling. One that every single elf was born with. — Kristina Aziz

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The frantic summer fishermen who pay a price and glut the decks with fish in the afternoon wonder vaguely what to do with them, sacks and baskets and mountains of porgies and blows and blackfish, sea robins, and even slender dogfish, all to be torn up greedily, to die, and to be thrown back for the waiting gulls. The gulls swarm and wait, knowing the summer fisherman will sicken of their plenty. Who wants to clean and scale a sack of fish? It's harder to give away fish than it is to catch them. — John Steinbeck

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel. — M. Ageyev

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena. — A.D. Aliwat

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. — Jessamyn West