Topakai Quotes & Sayings

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. — Andre Malraux

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. — Nicholas Rescher

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you. — Anca Iovita

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to this earth. — Ann Patchett

As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. I've tried my whole life simply to accept the images that present themselves to me without trying to analyze them. I remember when we were shooting That Obscure Object of Desire in Seville and I suddenly found myself telling Fernando Rey, at the end of a scene, to pick up a big sack filled with tools lying on a bench, sling it over his shoulder, and walk away. The action was completely irrational, yet it seemed absolutely right to me. Still, I was worried about it, so I shot two versions of the scene: one with the sack, one without. But during the rushes the following day, the whole crew agreed that the scene was much better with the sack. Why? I can't explain it, and I don't enjoy rummaging around in the cliches of psychoanalysis. — Luis Bunuel

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way. — Judd Gregg

It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning. — Steven Weinberg

Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude? — Katrina Kenison

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God. — Charles Godfrey Leland

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. — Seamus Heaney

Crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked. — Chris Bohjalian

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider — Anthony Horowitz