Torneria Quotes & Sayings

You can't go to East Anglia and not visit Sutton Hoo. Well, you can, obviously, but you shouldn't. — Bill Bryson

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy. — Jane McGonigal

I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone. — Karen Thompson Walker

Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal. — William Crookes

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated. — Uma Thurman

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. — Rita Mae Brown

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation. — Hans Selye

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation. — Albert M. Wolters

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for. — Zadie Smith

Beauty don't ask for attention. — Sonja De Lange

We are not only to use our armor to protect and defend ourselves from them - as important as that is - but also to go on the offensive against them as well. When we do that, we close doors to the enemy and open doors to the will of God to be done on earth. We advance God's kingdom. — Stormie O'martian

Could you actually remember pain? He didn't think so. You knew there was such a thing, and that you had suffered it, but that wasn't the same. — Stephen King

This book is a story of encounters between Reef peoples and places, ideas, and environments, over more than two centuries, beginning with James Cook's bewildered voyage through a coral maze and ending with the searing mission of reef scientist John "Charlie" Veron to goad us to act over the impending death of the Reef. — Iain McCalman

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson

The voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. — David Hume