Top 19 The Tain Quotes
#1. There are no right and wrong choices," Tain said trying to keep his voice gentle. "There is only what we do with the choices we make.
Jennifer Ashley
#2. It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?
China Mieville
#3. There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.
Geoff Stults
#5. It's the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.
Ally Carter
#6. He doesn't tell the snow to that and become tain, or the rain to freeze itself into snow. He says, essentially: do your thing. Do the thing that you love to do, that you've been created to do.
Shauna Niequist
#7. It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#8. He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.
Zora Neale Hurston
#9. The clock sweats out each minute
of what meat is left to us.
Joseph Bathanti
#10. You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
Edward O. Wilson
#11. Laugh at yourself. It's the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that's from the man that gave Cap[tain America] boobs.
Rob Liefeld
#13. I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.
Eric Maskin
#14. I god, Ah can't see what uh woman uh yo' stability would want tuh be treasurin' all dat gum-grease from folks dat don't even own de house dey sleep in. 'Tain't no earthly use. They's jus' some puny humans playin' round de toes uh Time.
Zora Neale Hurston
#15. If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
Anton Chekhov
#16. When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!
Sinclair Lewis
#17. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David Mitchell
#18. Tain't no use in you cryin' ... But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
Zora Neale Hurston
#19. People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.
Thornton Wilder
