Laffy Taffy Quotes Quotes

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her. ~ Mitch Albom

Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

It's crazy that the friends you're fondest of from your youth sometimes resemble people you would cross the street to avoid as an adult. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

He would never be comforted by the adage "God doesn't give us more than we can handle" after that. Because what is the metric of handling something? Not killing yourself? ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy. ~ Lisa Loeb

I never misrepresented myself," he'd say. That was a favorite, as if people weren't supposed to evolve and change and make requests of each other to bend and grow and expand. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn't-in a way she'd never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

We aren't meant to comprehend endings. We aren't meant to understand death. Death's whole gig is not being understood. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. ~ Chauncey Depew

That was maybe the the worst insult of adulthood, that even your silly, non-life-threatening, non-base desires got swallowed up by routine and maturity and edged out of your life for good. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. ~ Lisa Unger

Whatever kind of woman you are, even when you're a lot of kinds of women, you're still always just a woman, which is to say you're always a little bit less than a man. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our fairies are hope. Our werewolves are ... what again? Something ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Weekends were endless. If you needed to know the most disparate thing about Adam and me it was that he loved them and I did not. I liked order and routine. Weekends were an abyss that was exactly long enough to stare back at me. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Follow your dreams, not the crowd. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others. ~ Mensah Oteh

What was so much better than stability and the love of a good person who rooted for you? We fall in love and we decide to marry in this one incredible moment, and what if everything that happens after that is trying to remember that moment? We watch ourselves and our spouses change, and the work is to constantly recall the reasons you did this in the first place. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Warriors achieve more than worriers. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I didn't like the dark matter part. I feel like you can't just decide something must exist because everything's reacting to it. You can't just give it a name and hope it's true."

"But maybe the objects are just behaving in a way we don't understand. Maybe nothing is making them act that way but themselves. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

A wife isn't like an ultra-girlfriend or a permanent girlfriend. She's an entirely new thing. She's something you made together, with you as an ingredient. She couldn't be the wife without you. So hating her or turning on her or talking to your friends about the troubles you have with her would be like hating your own finger. ~ Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Love is revealed progressively. ~ Mensah Oteh

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always. ~ Mensah Oteh

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today. ~ Mensah Oteh

Life has a sense of humour; it hides its best treasures in unexpected places. ~ Mensah Oteh

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stop trying to understand people. Love them instead. ~ Mensah Oteh

Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead. ~ Mensah Oteh

Intimacy should not be given casually; there should be a price. And it shouldn't be negotiable. ~ Mensah Oteh

Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Taffy is the color of toast and butter. ~ Anne Michaels

Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things. ~ Mensah Oteh

You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning. ~ Polly Horvath

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential. ~ Mensah Oteh

Always see people smarter than you as gifts, not competition. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the masterpiece of your enemies to make you doubt your genius. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A fish doesn't need swimming gear when you throw it into the ocean. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You were given fingers to count your own blessings, not someone else's. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The beginning of a nations self defeat is when it denigrates the powerful capabilities of its own people. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Be a lamp in someone's dark world. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth cannot enter a virtuous soul without illuminating it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion's strength does not lie in its roar. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Investing in your mind is the best investment
you can make. ~ Mensah Oteh

We are like caterpillars, we die so we can be reborn in a higher state. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love has no spear but conquers hearts. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how many times you cut down a resilient tree, it will keep growing. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to dig a grave faster than anyone, use ignorance. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm just like an open book, it's words that you'll never understand. ~ Huzaifa Bin Fayyaz

Small truths have greater power than big lies. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

God leaves footprints wherever He goes;
love alone uncovers them. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge helps its enemies, but ignorance harms even its friends. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Groundbreaker! Stomp the ground and make your mark. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The riper a tree's fruit, the more stones people cast at it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is the soul's rainbow. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Progress is a vague concept, if there is no vision to progress towards. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Anyone can point to the ocean, but only the brave get past the shore. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count the roses, not the thorns. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We do not rise by making other people fall. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your losses are the starting points of your gains. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A warrior experiences many burials, but only one death. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We don't look the devil in the eye because we are afraid of seeing our own reflection. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to know what heaven is like, marry an angel. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Prejudice is a plague that can only be eradicated by love. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't waste time looking at the thorns or you'll miss the roses. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The saddest sound in the universe is made when the heart breaks. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The only job of a student is to become greater than his master. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An ounce of love is worth more than a tonne of gold. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is easier to tame a thousand bulls than to tame yourself. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The world sees color, children only see love. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you drop a gold coin in mud, it does not lose its value. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Students quit when they are tired; sages quit only when they have won. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I would rather die doing good than live doing evil. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The impact of relationships can be subtle yet powerful. Make a conscious effort to them choose wisely. ~ Mensah Oteh

Unapologetic for My Flaws and ALL! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbour, and the experiences you cherish. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The moment you learn the lesson, the test will be over. ~ Henna Sohail

Meekness is not weakness, but weakness can be masked as meekness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You better put an S on your forehead, cause your name must be stupid. ~ Euphoria Godsent

Stars announce their presence with beauty, not words; do likewise. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A pack is greater than a wolf. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo