Tornano Quotes & Sayings

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. "In the morning, - solitude;" said Pythagoras; that Nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company, and that her favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought. 'Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors: and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, — Anonymous

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it. — Dorothy Day

If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand it after all. — Jostein Gaarder

May you have strength to complete studies. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer through intervention is not worse than the disease. — Stanley McChrystal

Aristotle wisely reminds us, "It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied." When — Alexandra Stoddard

I was never hurt by what anybody said about my clothes, because I dress to please myself. If somebody doesn't like what I'm wearing, it's their problem, not mine — Iris Apfel

I shit you not, it heard the plan — Pete Wentz

The word Cancer alone makes me shiver. How harsh and unforgiving it sounds. — E.M. Crane

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting. — Peter Schmidt