Tozal Quotes & Sayings

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it. — Elie Wiesel

Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen. After that, if you don't watch out, you can spend all your time tallying your losses and gains in endless narrative. All you love has fled or been taken away. Everything fallen from you except the possibility of jolting and unforewarned memory springing out of the dark, rushing over you with the velocity of heartbreak. May walking down the hall humming an old song - "The Girl I Left Behind Me" - or the mere fragrance of clove in spiced tea can set you weeping and howling when all you've been for weeks on end is numb. — Charles Frazier

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. — Nicolas Chamfort

My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense. — Robertson Davies

Stetsons are the ultimate in cowboy headwear. — Lori Wilde

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask. — Isaac Hayes

It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana,' she said, 'but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.' - 'Aunt Juliana's Indian — Petina Gappah

These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees. — Catherine Of Siena

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. — Henry Petroski

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something
David Foster Wallace — David Lipsky

War is the lifeblood of this merchant republic. — Christopher Moore

Rather, there must be seeds, unseen, combined 895 in many ways and common to many things. — Titus Lucretius Carus

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing. — Kathy Acker

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united. — Henri Nouwen