Tonton David Quotes

#1. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Nothing consoles like the blues.

Hanif Kureishi

#3. One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Nicole Krauss

#4. Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

Mo Rocca

#7. After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

Meghan O'Rourke

#8. But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

Eric Roberts

#9. Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits ...

Helen Keller

#10. New Jersey, in 1844, became the last state to add the qualifying male to citizen, and women who had been voting all along could not vote anymore.

Ann Jones

#11. I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#12. Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Hazel Hawke