Tveir Kettir Quotes & Sayings

That room - once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yeah even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy path on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you remember where you are. — Tobias Wolff

When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping? — Anthony Liccione

Suddenly I realize it wasn't debris I felt against my escape pod as I left the ship. It was people. — Pierce Brown

Like Momma says, only thing you get by digging dirt is dirty. — Jamie Farrell

You weren't always born to the right parents. And parents didn't necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise. — Judy Blume

That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest my days with dignity and meaning, a pattern of behavior through which man might most articulately express his devotion to his fellows. — Milton Steinberg

I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse. — Rachel Kushner

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites. — Planningtorock

Permissiveness cannot sustain true liberty for long ... In Sodom they probably had absolute free speech, but nothing worth saying! On the other hand, an otherwise permissive society, which tolerates almost everything, usually will not tolerate speech that challenges its iniquity. Evil is always intolerantly preoccupied with its own perpetuation. — Neal A. Maxwell

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! — Umberto Eco

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower. — Mahatma Gandhi