Torresanta Quotes & Sayings

If someone rescues you, they own you. Not because you owe them - you can sort that, with enough good favors or bottles of booze dressed up in ribbons. They own you because you're not the lead in your story any more. You're the poor struggling loser/helpless damsel/plucky sidekick who was saved from danger/dishonor/humiliation by the brilliant brave compassionate hero/heroine, and they get to decide which, because you're not the one running this story, not any more. I — Tana French

It's hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame. — Les Brown

I could do some sit-ups, but if someone told me to drop and give them twenty, it would have to be dollars because there's no way I'd be able to do that many push-ups. — Grace Risata

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology." — Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Inspector Harding] " ... To start with, I know that the General didn't get on with his son, but seemed to prefer his nephew; I know that he disapproved violently of Miss de Silva, and behaved towards her with unparalleled cruelty."
"How much?" interrupted Dinah.
Harding replied with perfect gravity: "No absinthe, no shower in her bathroom ... "
"Did she tell you all that?" said Dinah. "Don't you think she's rather good value?"
"Yes, but she wastes my time. — Georgette Heyer

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally. — J. Philippe Rushton

My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart. In the midst of outer busyness — Paul E. Miller

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things. — Gore Vidal

This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. — Vitruvius Pollio

hot fury fighting to tear out of him. Mental flashes stabbed his brain of what was done to her - delicate flesh sliced open without care. Oh God. His stomach lurched as his mind suddenly connected the smell that had been in his nostrils since he'd gotten there. Blood. Fresh and dried, no doubt caking her inner thighs all the way to her feet. — Lucian Bane

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul. — Don G. Campbell

The other bad news: Polyphemus barreled toward me, a thousand smelly pounds of Cyclops that I would have to fight with a very small sword. — Rick Riordan

Music is ... a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine. — Oliver Sacks