Tonnesen Sisters Quotes & Sayings

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out. — Agnes De Mille

Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation. — Robert Nozick

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure. — Charlize Theron

There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence. — Herbert Lockyer

Oh! what does grief matter - what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No one else "makes" us do anything. They can't make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions. — Cathy Burnham Martin

If they love their children parents must, sparingly and carefully perhaps but nonetheless actively, confront and criticize them from time to time, just as they must allow their children to confront and criticize themselves in turn. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. — M. Scott Peck

But my longevity is due to my good timing. — Tony Curtis

My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me. — John Allison

Some things are destined to be
it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there. — J.R. Ward

Street-fighting's first rule: there are no rules. — Lee Child

Be vibrant, vital, vivacious, vigorous, and victorious with adventure and love. — Debasish Mridha