Toozenbach Quotes & Sayings

At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife. — James K. Morrow

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be. — Juan Gris

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. — Jeanette Winterson

No, I don't need to do this, she thought. This isn't what I want. I want my mother. The thought startled her, but she couldn't shake it. She wanted Marjorie - wanted to pour out her heart and cry in the arms of the one person whose job it was to listen. It didn't matter how old or how independent Kathryn was. She needed her mother. — Barbara Delinsky

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. — Jane Kaczmarek

If gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust ... — Geoffrey Chaucer

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you. — Sun Tzu

It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible. — Tara Sivec

I'll have you know I am more than my six-pack. — Tellulah Darling

Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is ... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care
with no one there to see or cheer. — David Foster Wallace

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. — Alan Autry

MASHA: Isn't there some meaning?
TOOZENBACH: Meaning? ... Look out there, it's snowing. What's the meaning of that? — Anton Chekhov

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary — Dante Alighieri

It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design. — Terry Pratchett