Troller Point Quotes & Sayings

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both. — Edith Hamilton

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

Lochedus couldn't help feeling a little proud of himself, though he knew pride to be a slippery slope. He felt he was holding his own in the verbal sparring match with Beladona - not an easy thing to do. — Lisa C. Temple

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. — George Bernard Shaw

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you. — LaVyrle Spencer

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like. — Jenji Kohan

Natural warmth is our shared capacity to love, to have empathy, to have a sense of humor. It is also our capacity to feel gratitude and appreciation and tenderness. It's the whole gamut of what often are called the heart qualities, qualities that are a natural part of being human. Natural warmth has the power to heal all relationships - the relationship with ourselves as well as with people, animals, and all that we encounter every day of our lives. — Pema Chodron

For me, life without murder is like a life without food. I was the father of these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world. — Alexander Pichushkin

If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer. — Katharine Hayhoe

On the other hand, there is no more potent dwarfing of the present than by viewing it as a mere link between a glorious past and a glorious future. Thus, though a mass movement at first turns its back on the past, it eventually develops a vivid awareness, often specious, of a distant glorious past. Religious movements go back to the day of creation; social revolutions tell of a golden age when men were free, equal, and independent; nationalist movements revive or invent memories of past greatness. — Eric Hoffer

Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity? — Peer Steinbruck

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be. — Ernest J. Gaines

As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'

I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality. — Tahir Shah

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning. — Andrew Wiggins

quieted my mind and spread my focus to every rustle, creak, and call from the wild lands. Nature had a rhythm akin to the beating of a drum or heart, — K.J. Colt