Trillanes Thinking Quotes & Sayings

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. — Henry S. Haskins

We were created for something higher than ourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There then passed a period of time in which Jane said many unutterable things. — Mary Robinette Kowal

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. — Maria Sharapova

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you. — Rabbi Hillel

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for. — Sam Taylor-Wood

Mary Keane watched her daughter and felt as well the punch and turn of the baby not yet born and saw the similarity of the mystery of them both - the baby unseen, moving an elbow or a foot, the means to an end all its own, unfathomable; her daughter with the unseen life playing like reflected light over her face, her lips moving in a conversation forever unheard. — Alice McDermott

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. — Benjamin Disraeli

Great, numbskull. Just bloody great. You've already managed to piss off the Queen. What's next on your agenda, setting fire to Disneyland? — Thea Harrison

It was confidently believed that the scientific successes of the industrial revolution could be carried through into the social sciences, particularly with such movements as Marxism. Pseudoscience came with a collection of idealistic nerds who tried to create a tailor-made society, the epitome of which is the central planner. Economics was the most likely candidate for such use of science; you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations, and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

She'd always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn't want it. — Gillian Flynn

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday. — Terry Goodkind

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? — Sylvia Plath