Tamim Ansary Quotes

#1. Cross the street and run away.
Have another jolly day.

PW c.1973

Paige W. Pendleton

#2. Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

Pearl Zhu

#3. A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

John Hodgman

#4. Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal.

Eoin Colfer

#5. The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

Oswald Chambers

#6. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

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#8. One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.

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#9. Having respect for animals makes us better humans..

Jane Goodall

#10. In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover.

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#11. If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween ... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.

Lewis Black

#12. The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library.

John Fowles

#13. Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually ... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Johannes Tauler