Trolloping Quotes & Sayings

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now. — Natalie De Clare

Already Buenos Aires was dyeing the horizon with pink fires, soon to flaunt its diadem of jewels, like some fairy hoard. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The thing about the sun ... is that it's always there. Like sometimes, you can't see it, but it never really goes away. — Stephenie Meyer

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — John Corigliano

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting. — Bernadette Devlin

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them. — Julianna Margulies

The all-or-nothing quality of Poonja-ji's teaching obliged him to acknowledge the full enlightenment of any person who was grandiose or manic enough to claim it. Thus, I repeatedly witnessed fellow students declare their complete and undying freedom, all the while appearing quite ordinary - or worse. In certain cases, these people had clearly had some sort of breakthrough, but Poonja-ji's insistence upon the finality of every legitimate insight led many of them to delude themselves about their spiritual attainments. Some left India and became gurus. From what I could tell, Poonja-ji gave everyone his blessing to spread his teachings in this way. — Sam Harris

We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind.

We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world. — Caryll Houselander

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage. — Theodor W. Adorno

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project. — Dominic Cooper

If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us! — Pope Benedict XVI

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard. — Angela Ruggiero

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence. — Aga Khan IV

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor. — Daniel Levitin

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. — Ansel Adams