Tam Quotes

#1. The new manager wants Tam to 'joosh it up a bit', make it more accessible.

Laura Marney

#2. There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Pliny The Younger

#3. Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked.
"Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

Nancy Farmer

#4. You? Harmless?" Tam snorted.
"What? You don't think I could pull it off?" Aiden accused.
"Well, the fact that you're practically a walking armory had me convinced otherwise.

Claire M. Banschbach

#5. Tam felt his hands twitch, longing to curl into fists, longing to put those fists into that motherfucking GQ model wannabe's face.

Lauren Gilley

#6. Tam let out a ragged breath, as he fought to reign his emotions back, while the realisation sank in.
He was nothing. To Konnor. To Giovanni. To everyone.
He was invisible.

Elaine White

#7. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin' braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin' off tae war?

Brian Jacques

#8. Remember the flame, lad, and the void. It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it - fear, hate, anger - until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

Robert Jordan

#9. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#10. Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

Desiderius Erasmus

#11. Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

Robert Burns

#12. After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

Julius Caesar

#13. As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

Nancy Farmer

#14. No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

Plautus

#15. The flame and the void are about center," Tam said. "And about peace. I would teach it to each and every person in this land, soldier or not, if I could.

Robert Jordan

#16. River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

Joss Whedon

#17. That guy should be in porn films." Barclay frowned. "Why's that then, Allan?" Ward looked at him. "Tell me, Tam, when did you last see a bigger prick?

Ian Rankin

#18. But I thought you said we didn't have to worry," Perrin said, and Tam shook his head.
"I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

Robert Jordan

#19. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'

Sarah J. Maas

#20. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Nancy Farmer

#21. Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

Pliny The Younger

#22. Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.
(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. Tam knew what I was saying. He stared at me, his expression unreadable. "I need you to support the ceiling above the tear I'm going to make."
"Yeah, yeah. I got it. You pull; I push. Let's go!"
"I need control and delicacy, Raine."
I snorted. "Too bad you're stuck with me.

Lisa Shearin

#24. Catechism.3. Recovery of health. Your honour's players hearing your amendment,Are come to play a pleasant comedy.Shakesp.Tam. Shrew.

Samuel Johnson

#25. Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [ ... ]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

Nancy Farmer

#26. I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been really powerful, they've never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one.

Tess Gerritsen

#27. Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.

Lisa Shearin

#28. Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non aequus animus solatium inveniat.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

Seneca The Younger

#29. It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

Robert Jordan

#30. I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

Ovid

#31. Don't ye know it's magic? Ye know, ye'll never beat nine in a row!" sang Tam as he and Shug collided and then began to meander though the village dusk.

Hugh Bradley

#32. I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

Robert Jordan

#33. Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor

Robert Jordan

#34. Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

Seneca The Younger

#35. His shadow slipped over hers again, and she could almost feel his eyes studying her. "You're different," his voice whispered. "I can't decide if that's a good thing."
'It is', she transmitted, surprised at how much she wanted him to believe her.
He walked away without another word.

Shannon Messenger

#36. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

Simon S. Tam

#37. I can't believe that 24 hours ago I was in an Egyptian tomb and now here I am, on the verge of a madcap, Manhattan weekend.

Tam Francis

#38. If anything belongs in the Shepherd of the Night's flocks, lad, it's Trollocs.

Robert Jordan

#39. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

Simon S. Tam

#40. The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.

Simon Tam

#41. I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists

Simon Tam

#42. Apathy is not compatible with love

Simon Tam

#43. The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

Simon S. Tam

#44. Perhaps there was no God. God was a creation of man, not the other way around.

Tam Linsey

#45. People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there's a group of people getting together to share something about their heritage that we're excluding white people. But that's not the reality.

Simon S. Tam

#46. sought the council of his tribe. When did my people decide to let one person rule without question?

Tam Linsey

#47. Behind them, the white caps of the mountains gleamed like wicked teeth.

Tam Linsey

#48. Had I known but yesterday what I know today,
I'd have taken out your two gray eyes
And put in eyes of clay;
And had I known but yesterday you'd be no more my own
I'd have taken out your heart of flesh
And put in one of stone

Tam Lin Neville

#49. Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.

Simon S. Tam

#50. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.

Simon S. Tam

#51. Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Simon S. Tam

#52. I don't know how to protect you. The world's fucked up, and I feel like we're cripples limping through it together.

Tam Linsey

#53. Levi was not so pious. Surely, it never occurred to Abraham that God was toying with him.

Tam Linsey

#54. Success in the music industry isn't something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day.

Simon S. Tam

#55. The rain had begun at dusk, spewing from the sky like someone had opened an artery. Beneath

Tam Linsey

#56. The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.

Simon S. Tam

#57. The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it's more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you'll accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.

Simon S. Tam

#58. For more information, see Marcus Buckingham's book, Find Your Strongest Life,

Marilyn Tam

#59. the sun remained hidden as if ashamed of the havoc below. "That's

Tam Linsey

#60. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer

Tam David-West

#61. What was he supposed to do with five abominations? What would he tell his people?

Tam Linsey

#62. There are always costs when man alters nature, his own or the world around him.

Tam Linsey

#63. People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

Simon S. Tam

#64. Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

Simon S. Tam

#65. Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name. I promise you'll know, when you I do claim. What am I? Clue 1: I come at the end. Clue 2: No one can avoid me. Clue 3: I am the final destination. Answer: death

George Tam

#66. Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

Tam David-West

#67. I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn't be talked about

Robert Jordan