Tonkins Anderson Quotes & Sayings

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler

Fairness is a wonderful attribute, Major Anderson. It has nothing to do with war. — Orson Scott Card

I've never gone to comedy clubs. — Don Rickles

The soul throbs like the sea for a larger life. No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul. — Richard Jefferies

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest? — George R R Martin

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also ... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest; ... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. — Grace Williams

Hardly happy at all, and I'm ready to take the fall. We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from. Can you sit through this? Or is it gonna be too deep? — Tegan Quin

Come and take them — Plutarch

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate. — Sigmund Freud

A company with dysfunctional habits can't turn around simply because a leader orders it. Rather, wise executives seek out moments of crisis - or create the perception of crisis - and cultivate the sense that something must change, until everyone is finally ready to overhaul the patterns they live with each day. — Charles Duhigg