Tresserra Pool Quotes & Sayings

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee. — Jonathan Swift

Love can end. It isn't permanent by nature, whatever the weavers of fairy tales want to suggest. Forever takes hard work, and is destroyed by lies. — Christine Amsden

Most, I loved James Baldwin's essays. There was to a Baldwin essay a metropolitan elegance I envied, a refusal of the livid. In Baldwin I found a readiness to rise to prophetic wrath, something like those ministers, and yet, once more, to bend down in tenderness, to call grown men and women "baby" (a whiff of the theater). Watching Baldwin on television - I will always consider the fifties to have been a sophisticated time - fixed for me what being a writer must mean. Arching eyebrows intercepted ironies, parenthetically declared fouls; mouthfuls of cigarette smoke shot forth ribbons of exactitude. — Richard Rodriguez

Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone. — Robertson Davies

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual. — Steven Pressfield

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of. — George C. Wallace

Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism. — Gabrielle Giffords