Trgtl127 Quotes & Sayings

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed. — Robert Loggia

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future. — Jawaharlal Nehru

The value of just one soul is greater than any single thing upon this earth. For there can be nothing greater than raising a child in preparation for that journey back to where he came from, a place where his immortal father lives, a place known as heaven, a place called home. — Richard B. Pelzer

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; an abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response. — Neil Postman

We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion. — Richard L. Evans

Every runner is an experiment of one. — George A. Sheehan

A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone. — Laozi

They are approaching now a lengthy brick improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted in Gothic cathedrals - but which, in its own time, arose not from any need to climb through the fashioning of suitable confusions toward any apical God, but more in a derangement of aim, a doubt as to the God's actual locus (or, in some, as to its very existence), out of a cruel network of sensuous moments that could not be transcended and so bent the intentions of the builders not on any zenith, but back to fright, to simple escape, in whatever direction, from what the industrial smoke, street excrement, windowless warrens, shrugging leather forests of drive belts, flowing and patient shadow states of the rats and flies, were saying about the chances for mercy that year. — Thomas Pynchon

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American. — Nick Robinson

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons ... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway. — Charles Horner

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust. — James Hudson Taylor

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers

Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret. clxxv — Baltasar Gracian

But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief. — John Corey Whaley

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain. — Marshall Rose