Tossamine Quotes & Sayings

The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainly exempt from its operation. First when my daughter died, next when you were wounded, I knew that I was mortal; and now I regard those years as wasted, as unproductive, in which I was not aware that my death was certain, nay, momently possible. I can now appraise at a glance those who have not yet foreseen their death. I know them for the children they are. They think that by evading its contemplation they are enhancing the savor of life. The reverse is true: only those who have grasped their non-being are capable of praising the sunlight. — Thornton Wilder

'Powell movement.' What do you think 'PM' stands for? — Jon Stewart

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice. — Bob Hartley

It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. — Vincent Van Gogh

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn. — Angelus Silesius

Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not."
- from "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing — Walt Whitman

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy. — Pat Ament

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me. — James Dashner

Homely truth is unpalatable. — Mark Twain

The skiff swung gently, drifting in the current. He undid his shirt to the waist and put one forearm to his eyes. He could hear the river talking softly beneath him, heavy old river with wrinkled face — Cormac McCarthy