Torturd Quotes & Sayings

For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences. — Nick Hornby

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore. — Kris Kidd

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy. — Paul Johnson

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. — Henry James

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do ... being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself. — Sarah MacLean

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success. — Gary W. Keller

In Ignatian spirituality there is nothing that you have to put in a box and hide. Nothing has to be feared. Nothing has to be hidden away. Everything can be opened up — James Martin

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings. — John Green

St. Francis was in some ways a fundamentalist, but he was fundamentalist about those passages that asked a lot of himself and his "form of life," whereas most reformers (and preachers) are fundamentalist about passages that ask a lot of — Hilarion Kistner O.F.M.

Goldberg claims time travel is easy. "It is simply a matter of using the Fifth Dimensional Travel exercise," he says, that he presents on his website. — Stephen Young