Tournez Dans Quotes & Sayings

Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out of the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could Laika possibly be looking at? — Haruki Murakami

What Nietzsche recognises is that you can get rid of God only if you also do away with innate meaning. The Almighty can survive tragedy, but not absurdity. — Terry Eagleton

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well. — Sarah Dessen

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body. — Sri Chinmoy

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name. — Jennifer Grant

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. — George Eliot

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own. — Richard Brookhiser

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation. — Theodore C. Sorensen

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas. — Daniel Kahneman

What human being doesn't hesitate and feel hurt?" Hatsumi demanded. "Are you trying to say that you have never felt those things?"
"Of course I have, but I've disciplined myself to where I can minimize them. Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shcok him enough."
"But rats don't fall in love. — Haruki Murakami

Only the unprotected self can feel joy. — Siri Hustvedt

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. — Edwin Starr