Tossup Chinese Quotes & Sayings

And besides (I told myself) wasn't it time to Move Forward, Let Go, turn from the garden that was locked to me? Live In The Present, Focus On The Now instead of grieving for what I could never have? — Donna Tartt

Both of us watch the purification happen, and I wonder if he is thinking what I am: that it would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to linger. — Veronica Roth

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. — Alexander Pope

In The Same Room

Person 1: In this very room,
we spent the day and looked over antiquities.
Don't you remember?

Person 2: Do I know you?
I can't recall this face, but I want to.

Person 1: In this very room, we flew acroos the sea,
in the ship Saturnia.
Don't you remember?

Person 2: I can't remember your face,
but I hope the ship will carry us there,
in the ship Saturnia. — Julia Holter

Then Pa looked straight at Laura and said, 'You girls keep away from the camp. When you go walking. don't go near where the men are working, and you be sure you're back here before they come in for the night. There's all kinds of rough men working on the grade and using rough language, and the less you see and hear of them the better. Now remember, Laura. And you too, Carrie.' Pa's face was very serious.
'Yes, Pa' Laura promised, and Carrie almost whispered , 'Yes, Pa.' Carrie's eyes were large and frightened. She did not want to hear rough language, whatever rough language might be. Laura would have liked to hear some, just once, but of course she must obey Pa. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze. — Aime Cesaire

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. — Shannon Wheeler

Death, which, by its very nature, is the end, the destruction of every communication, is changed by him into an act of self-communication; and this is man's redemption, for it signifies the triumph of love over death. We can put the same thing another way: death, which puts an end to words and to meaning, itself becomes a word, becomes the place where meaning communicates itself. — Pope Benedict XVI