Towfighian Quotes & Sayings

How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact! — Mark Twain

For three years, all through junior high, my social death was grossly overdetermined. I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses, poor arm strength, too-obvious approval from my teachers, irresistible urges to shout unfunny puns, a near-eidetic acquaintance with J.R.R. Tolkien, a big chemistry lab in my basement, a penchant for intimately insulting any unfamiliar girl unwise enough to speak to me, and so on. — Jonathan Franzen

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. — Jodi Picoult

My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there. — Solange Knowles

It's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. — Margaret Atwood

I have a talent, I can sing. — LeAnn Rimes

David Brooks's The Social Animal. I recommend chapters 3 through 9, which give a far richer account than what I think about the subject. — Mark M. Weber

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. — Jose Rizal

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. — H.L. Mencken

Honor is awesome because I say so — Honor Moore

It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be less affluent than these T-shirted, joke-cracking fatsos- — Jonathan Franzen

Send-to-Kindle email address, — Amazon

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. — Douglas MacArthur

And love was creation's source,creation's ruler;
but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. — Knut Hamsun