Tricycle Magazine Quotes & Sayings

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since. — Maurice Flanagan

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others. — Margaret Thatcher

If we have to, we can do anything. We are strong, and when one of us isn't feeling all that invincible, the other will always take the wheel. We are women. — Lisa Kogan

The choices we made ... These were the right choices. They were positive and proactive. And it was, for a time, good for everyone, most especially our boy. But were these choices really? Or were they reactions? Reactions to something that life had thrown at us, something we didn't choose and didn't want. Is there a difference between reaction and choice? I don't know the answer. — Lisa Unger

I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We're very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that. — Thelma Schoonmaker

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him. — Angelo Dundee

I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing. — Willa Cather

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A drop of anger can lead to a flood of troubles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way. — Brie Larson

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself. — Poul Hartling

It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth. — Milan Kundera

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn't change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission?
Some people make the mistake of confusing "submission" with "weakness", whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend. — Elif Shafak

the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax. — William Stearns Davis