Treilles Quotes & Sayings

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope? — Sage Steadman

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me. — Jim Butcher

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation. — Daniel Everett

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. — Karl A. Menninger

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man. — Joyce Carol Oates

We should not be impressed when our leaders say firmly, "History teaches us" or "History will show that we were right."
They can oversimplify and force inexact comparisons just as much as any of us can. Even the clever and the powerful (and the two are not necessarily the same) go confidently off down the wrong paths. It is useful, too, to be reminded, as a citizen, that those in positions of authority do not always know better. — Margaret MacMillan

I think one of our cardinal fuckups is how we insist that even vicious whimsical crazy shit needs to make sense, add up, belong to a reason. We lay this pain on ourselves
there must be a reason behind this horror, there must, but I ain't adequate to findin' it, and that's my fault, so torture me some more. — Daniel Woodrell