Torbanite Quotes & Sayings

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine. — Thomas Watson

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old — J.R.R. Tolkien

The 100% American is 99% idiot. — George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word? — Beth Moore

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. — Bill Vaughan

Democratizing China is not, however, the principal rationale for engaging it; that is the task of the Chinese themselves. But creating a mutually nonthreatening and beneficial relationship is an appropriate,and achievable, goal for the United States. Acting on the presumption of an existing or probable China threat, on the other hand, exaggerates China's intentions and capabilities and opens the door to a new Cold War. — Melvin Gurtov

You just have to let people love you in the way they can — Ann Brashares

Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic. — Eoin Colfer

Do not neglect your inner beauty in pursuit of your outer beauty. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Even exploitation and oppression still make society work and establish some kind of order. Only wealth without power or aloofness without a policy are felt to be parasitical, useless, revolting, because such conditions cut all the threads which tie men together. Wealth which does not exploit lacks even the relationship which exists between exploiter and exploited; aloofness without policy does not imply even the minimum concern of the oppressor for the oppressed. — Hannah Arendt

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. — Epicurus