Tuacahn Quotes & Sayings

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. — George Orwell

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. — Marilynne Robinson

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with. — Nick Harkaway

God, I am fucking fabulous. Someone should really write a book about me. — J. Daniels

After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. — Roseanne Barr

On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment. — William J. Clinton

Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society. Indeed, some might say that explorers become explorers precisely because they have a streak of unsociability and a need to remove themselves at regular intervals as far as possible from their fellow men. — David Grann

It is with our voices we remember, with our ears we understand. — Elizabeth Hunter

Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating. — Bryant McGill

Yeah, I'm great. And I meant it. It's a small humongous realization: I'm always going to be scared of something-spiders, the dark, being on my own-but I don't have to let the fear be in control. — Katie McGarry

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone. — Tim Relf

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. — Mikko Hypponen