Tranont Life Quotes & Sayings

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. — J.K. Rowling

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me. — Julie Anne Peters

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials. — Scott McCallum

What am I going to do with you?" I smiled as he kissed along my neck.
"Marry me," he said. "You could marry me. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be. — Del Close

They were seeking the treasure of their destiny, without wanting actually to live out the destiny. — Paulo Coelho

Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and creating for them a false sense of identification----denying real class differences whenever possible. The relative few who escape their lower class roots are held up as models, as though everyone at the bottom has the same chance of succeeding through cleverness and hard work, scrimping and saving. Personal connections, favoritism, and trading on class-based knowledge still grease the wheels that power social mobility in today's business and professional worlds. — Nancy Isenberg

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples
temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only. — John Ruskin

Kissing, said Lesley, ought really to be taught as a school subject, preferably instead of religious studies, which nobody needed. — Kerstin Gier

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions. — David Allen

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We had to be up early in the morning. We had a goat race to go to ... We asked the old man confident in the knowledge that he, like every Frenchman, would be an expert. The goats who make the most droppings before the race are likely to do well. An empty goat is faster than a full goat. C'est logique. — Peter Mayle

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me. — David Green