Twende Quotes & Sayings

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks

The gentry protect their names like hymens,
They suck their names like thumbs,
But they sign their names and something happens.
While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer,
All day, and nothing happens. — Paul Zimmer

If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will. — Kurt Vonnegut

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. — Haruki Murakami

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them. — Gene Simmons

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion. — William Matthews

Innovators are inevitably controversial. — Eva Le Gallienne

Twende tu, she called out in Swahili as she buckled her helmet. I am going. — Paula McLain

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. — John Lasseter

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. — John Bolton

Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again. — Janet Fitch

With various people complaining about "price gouging? ... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn. — Thomas Sowell

Tentatively, I presented the idea of being naked with Austin to the gallery of my neuroses. It was a loud, raucous meeting. Sex-Drive was bouncing around like a child on Pixy Stix, saying "yes yes yes" over and over again. Vanity suggested that the things in the [safe sex] book would not improve the way I looked in the slightest. Insecurity and Doubt argued over what would be more awful; when Austin saw me naked or when my sexual inexperience made itself evident and he laughed at me. Optimism sulked off to the side because I never listened to it. Prudence recommended tabling the discussion indefinitely. Curiosity wanted to look at the pictures some more. Shyness just sat in the corner, rocking back and forth and crying. — Chris O'Guinn