Tuuan Quotes & Sayings

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it. — Richard DeVos

But when we reflect how difficult it is to move or inflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear, and that will be chiefly to reform the waste of public money, and thus drive away the vultures who prey on it, and improve some little on old routines. Even — Jon Meacham

God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.a — Anonymous

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health. — Tony Judt

We should never become so enamored with the future that we forget the value of the past.

Alyssa Rosenberg — D.S. Cahr

Poets sing our human music for us. — Carol Ann Duffy

Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival. — Faraaz Kazi

Why would you want to be with someone who does not fully accept who you are? he asked. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov

Reveal art; conceal the artist. — Gustave Flaubert

It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful, you offer her great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem ... What's love, darling, if it's not self-sacrifice? — Ayn Rand

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. — Cordell Hull

Let all live as they would die. — George Herbert