Toxo Quotes & Sayings

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships. — Richard Flanagan

Very ... " She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence. "Very beautiful." Oh, really! thought Isabel. The verdict from others was much the same. Oh well, thought Isabel. Perhaps I'm not sufficiently used to the language he's using. Music is not an international language, she thought, no matter how frequently that claim is made; some words of the language may be the same, but not all, and one needs to know the rules to understand what is being said. Perhaps I just don't understand the conventions by which Nick Smart is communicating with his audience. — Alexander McCall Smith

Biblical interpretation is not a passive matter. It requires our own active negotiation. When we pretend that, deep down, all the voices are really saying the same thing and ought to be able to get along, we forfeit our responsibility as inheritors of this richly, sometimes disturbingly, contradictive literature. — Timothy Beal

There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization. — Daniel Ellsberg

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past. — Martin Buber

We are all more capable than we think we are. — Anne Murray

Rachel hadn't invented the dangers of toxoplasmosis; she'd gone online and built an airtight case. This wasn't crazy talk. Neurobiologists had linked T. gondii to suicide and the onset of schizophrenia. All caused by exposure to cat poop. Some studies even suggested that the toxo brain parasites chemically coerced people to adopt more cats. Those crazy cat ladies were actually being controlled by an infection of single-cell invaders. — Chuck Palahniuk

Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God. — Martin Luther

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest, — William O. Douglas

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me. — Tamara Ecclestone

When I left 'Downton Abbey,' it hadn't yet taken off and become the phenomenon that it is, to this day. That all happened after I left. But, it was fabulous to be a part of it and to be a part of the cast. We had an absolute ball! — Rose Leslie

I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast. — Tom Robbins

One must live well to know what living is. — Bertolt Brecht