Tweedie Quotes

#1. We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

Alec-Tweedie

#2. Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

Jill Tweedie

#3. My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

Jill Tweedie

#4. I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

Jane Green

#5. Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ...

Alec-Tweedie

#6. Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

RuPaul

#7. A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

Shawn Wayans

#8. Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

Alec-Tweedie

#9. God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago.

Irina Tweedie

#10. I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!

Irina Tweedie

#11. Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

Alec-Tweedie

#12. Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Alec-Tweedie

#13. Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Alec-Tweedie

#14. The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Alec-Tweedie

#15. Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Irina Tweedie

#16. I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

Jill Tweedie

#17. Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

Alec-Tweedie

#18. Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Alec-Tweedie

#19. I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

Sutton Foster

#20. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Alec-Tweedie

#21. I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

Irina Tweedie

#22. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Alec-Tweedie

#23. Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

Kathryn Budig

#24. I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.

Irina Tweedie

#25. This is the final bubble. The US government now has to keep printing money to keep things stable. Maybe when the economy booms again they can hold off - but that might be a while.

James Altucher

#26. He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Alec-Tweedie

#27. A gramme is always better than a damn.

Aldous Huxley

#28. Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jeremy Corbyn

#29. The goal of every yoga is to lead a guided life.

Irina Tweedie

#30. Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

George S. Patton

#31. We are the arbiters of our destiny.

Irina Tweedie

#32. It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Jupiter Hammon

#33. Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

Jill Tweedie

#34. I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.

Irina Tweedie

#35. Warriors do not speak of such feelings. I love you too, son, but I won't be telling you so.

Julie Garwood

#36. When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

Irina Tweedie

#37. I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me ... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

Irina Tweedie

#38. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

Walt Whitman

#39. We've already had one horrible thing happen today, which means that if you think about it the odds of anything else horrible happening again in the next few hours should now be quite low.

Joshua Donellan