Tranchant Quotes & Sayings

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace. — Cheech Marin

I think you can love a person too much.
You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. — Jodi Picoult

The new is older than the old;
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought. — Helen Hunt Jackson

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. — Confucius

Two easy steps to be a good writer:
1. Don't write what everyone is writing.
2. Write what everyone is trying to write. — Himanshu Chhabra

No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person. — Susan Jeffers

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life — William J. Clinton

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us. — Melina Marchetta

If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker of an empty building threatening to send the entire street of people to meet Jesus literally at any moment, and not just emotionally. — Rachel Higginson