Tragic Thrills Quotes & Sayings

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk. — Barry Goldwater

The final aspect of Kruppe to complete this dream's array of those faces facing him which are Kruppe's own. Or so you would proclaim. You are Humility but, as everyone knows, Humility has no place in Kruppe's life, remember that. So here you will stay. — Steven Erikson

Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation. — Arundhati Roy

Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down ... The writing is superb. — Elmer Kelton

It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit. Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop with these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitrations. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wei is like an enigma wrapped in a puzzle hidden in the most intricate maze of the world — Michele Amitrani

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education. — Sai Baba

We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation. — Gilles Deleuze

I can't sleep,' he said. 'Let me lie with my head on your silver breast. — Jean Rhys

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year ... by cosmetic surgeons. — Ricky Gervais

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce. — Jared Kushner