Tontera Rima Quotes & Sayings

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player! — Bill Fitch

People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure. — Sara Cox

standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together. — Emily St. John Mandel

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. — Robert Breault

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here. — Russell Tovey

Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. — Morihei Ueshiba

It is one of the great tragedies of our time that the masses have come to believe that they have reached their high standard of material welfare as a result of having pulled down the wealthy, and to fear that the preservation or emergence of such a class would deprive them of something they would otherwise get and which they regard as their due. — Friedrich Hayek

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards
enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders. — George W. Bush

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect. — Colum McCann

Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters? — Art Buchwald

No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger. — Dorothy Allison

The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried to joke. — Obert Skye

Gerald Schroeder points out that the existence of conditions favorable to life still does not explain how life itself originated. Life was able to survive only because of favorable conditions on our planet. But there is no law of nature that instructs matter to produce end-directed, self-replicating entities. — Antony Flew

unless you learn to recognize the false as false - as not you - there can be no lasting transformation, and you would always end up being drawn back into illusion and into some form of pain. — Eckhart Tolle

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there. — Kathy Reichs