Torode P 1 Quotes & Sayings

I like the connection - me touching her. She's oil on my troubled, deep, dark waters.
Hmm ... flowery, Grey. — E.L. James

It is the political task of the social scientist - as of any liberal educator - continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work - and, as an educator, in his life as well - this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society. — C. Wright Mills

Texas's main exports are cotton, oil, and preachers. — Sam Torode

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq. — Rick Springfield

I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel. — Sam Torode

Oftentimes, a truth is so big, so far beyond our understanding, that the only way we can grasp it is through a story. The creation of the whole universe is like that. How can our puny brains contain it? — Sam Torode

...water is to the land what blood is to the body. — Sam Torode

To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the land. — Sam Torode

The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm.. — John Paul Jackson

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications. — Milan Kundera

Remember--Adam was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece. — Sam Torode

Lester was the obvious choice for pastor, I guess, since he'd sired half the congregation. — Sam Torode

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.' He scratched his chin. 'That's why I'm keeping a low profile--so the bastards don't get me. — Sam Torode

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better. — Sam Torode

Remember this, my boy. The two greatest men who ever livied-Jesus and Socrates-were both hoboes. — Sam Torode

This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. — Mark Helprin

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way. — Steven Pinker

To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken. — Patrick Rothfuss

Words are themselves organisms, ... — Ali Smith

I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant. — Bernard Hopkins

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. — Agnes Repplier

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. — Criss Jami

How are you, and I'm not her boyfriend. I break up with her every day, but she won't go away. — Jettie Woodruff

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places. — Linda Hogan