Tonteria Quotes & Sayings

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints — Gyan Nagpal

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.' — David Harsanyi

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed. — Tullian Tchividjian

I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people. — Joe Sacco

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is. — Pradeepa Pandiyan

They just sat there looking back at me. The orange queen was clacking her typewriter. Cop talk was no more treat for her than legs to a dance director. They had the calm weathered faces of healthy men in hard condition. They had the eyes they always have, cloudy and grey like freezing water. The firm set mouth, the hard little wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, the hard hollow meaningless stare, not quite cruel and a thousand miles from kind. The dull ready-made clothes, worn without style, with a sort of contempt; the look of men who are poor and yet proud of their power, watching always for ways to make it felt, to shove it into you and twist it and grin and watch you squirm, ruthless without malice, cruel and yet not always unkind. What would you expect them to be? Civilization had no meaning for them. All they saw of it was the failures, the dirt, the dregs, the aberrations and the disgust. — Raymond Chandler