Tas Pappas Quotes

#1. There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

Sylvia Plath

#2. An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the parasites say 'no, your art must serve the cause ... your ideals endanger the people!'

Andrew Ryan

#3. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian - that is, a creature acting by instinct.

Gustave Le Bon

#4. Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

Chaim Potok

#5. When you are a member of an organization, life isn't only about you. As part of a circle of people who depend on one another, you watch one another's back and remain loyal to the concept of brotherhood.

Sonny Barger

#6. I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#7. I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something. I used to force older members of my family to watch the plays and younger members of my family to be characters in the plays - and my personal favorite was Batman.

Erin Richards

#8. For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic anarchism, has become the core of the value system in the USA.

Eric Hobsbawm

#9. Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.

Eileen Miller

#10. It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Placido Domingo

#11. America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do.

Barack Obama

#12. It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.

Daniel Dae Kim

#13. X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. You can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue.

Rabih Alameddine

#15. When you pray, pray for kindness, pray for compassion, and pray for love.

Debasish Mridha