Toph Beifong Quotes & Sayings

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way. — Eliot Spitzer

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands. — Osama Bin Laden

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. — Edward Ruscha

I don't mean to be such a burden," I whispered. All I ever wanted to do was protect you.
"It's not a burden if people are willing to carry it," she pointed out. — Alexandra Bracken

The truth is always an abyss. One must - as in a swimming pool - dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again - laughing and fighting for breath - to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. — Franz Kafka

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It had been a long time since Kai had seen that expression on his adviser. The expression that indicated he thought Kai was a moron. — Marissa Meyer

It almost felt like we were driving in our own world
like we were inside a snow globe
and there was music and sunlight and smiles and laughter floating in the air. And it was all self-contained in a beautiful bubble filled with glittering water that made things seem a little unreal, a little dream-like and hazy. — Melissa C. Walker

All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. The ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints. In nature, this self-registration is incessant, and the narrative is the print of the seal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson