Judith Tarr Quotes

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

Judith Tarr

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• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
  • Weak

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Success
  • Childhood
  • Professional

• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Change
  • Jesus

• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Knowing
  • Intellectual

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Think

• I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Prevented
  • Abdicate

• My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Anchor

• I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feelings

• As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mind
  • She
  • Dark

• Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Training
  • Divorce

• I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.

  

  Charlotte Moss
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Strong

• As I look at my own precious children, I feel, like Joseph, that I have been entrusted with a great treasure. Recognizing that Joseph was a strong, responsible, and loving man who sought and received revelation to care for his family, I am inspired to emulate those qualities. In those moments, the gift I hope to give my Lord that year is to be more like Joseph the Carpenter.

  

  Eric D. Huntsman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Inspired

• Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Soul
  • Books
  • Revelation