Tritts Treats Quotes & Sayings

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean. — James Taylor

For real food our people had traveled off reservation twenty miles or more to put our money in the pockets of store clerks who watched us with suspicion and took our money with contempt. — Louise Erdrich

The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there. — Harper Lee

Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis. — Simon Critchley

The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. — Barack Obama

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The living and dead world are separated by breath. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him. — Fulton J. Sheen

Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast. — Santosh Kalwar

I'm getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently ... I'm accepting L.A. for who she is. She's a dark temptress. — Casey Wilson

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans. — Kevin O'Leary

Chivalry!
why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection
the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant
Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. — Walter Scott

Hard feelings pass. Don't suffer fools or you'll become one. — Timothy Ferriss

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar. — Susan Orlean