Tyquine Quotes & Sayings

Between 1994 and 2008, an individual health-care mandate was a standard GOP nostrum, promoted not only by Mitt Romney, but by Newt Gingrich when he was the highest elected Republican official in the country, and it was endorsed by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Now the mandate is the work of the devil, and authoritarian followers of the GOP, like faithful party members in Orwell's 1984, believe "we've always been at war" against mandates. — Mike Lofgren

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward. — Jack Nicholson

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls. — Harold S. Kushner

Susan said, "Have you given any thought to how we should spend Christmas?" "Only that we should be together." I glanced over at the softly snoring Pearl. "With Pearl, of course. Hawk, too. Maybe — Robert B. Parker

I've been trying to figure that out since I met him. I've had more luck trying to smell the color nine. — Jenny Allen

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines. — Dannel Malloy

Sow flowers to make a garden bloom around you,
The thorns you sow will prick your own feet.
Arrows shot at others
Will return to hit you as they fall.
You yourself will come to teeter on the lip
Of a well dug to undermine another.
Though you look at others with contempt,
It's you whose body will be reduced to dust.
Humanity is all one body;
To torture another is simply to wound yourself.
[ ... ]Make your path straight now, by the bright light of day;
For pitch darkness will come without warning. — Rahman Baba

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean. — Emma Forrest

We are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use. — Hilary Mantel

Problem is, I'm not thinking very proper thoughts when I look at you. I keep thinking about messing you up. Getting dirty. Making you scream. Stuff like that. — Jennifer Probst

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them. — Steve Jobs

You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing. — William Zabka

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it. — Sassafras Lowrey

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape. — Del Shannon

I can paint in jail. — Jack Kevorkian