Tami Hoag Quotes

The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble? ~ Tami Hoag

That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want - or want what you find. ~ Tami Hoag

They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you will get to the top of the mountain, but in the moment you only need to focus on the next ledge. ~ Tami Hoag

For me the most valuable part of this kind of research, however, is just hanging out with the men and women on the job, listening to them, absorbing the atmosphere and attitudes of their world. ~ Tami Hoag

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life. ~ Tami Hoag

Mitch shook his head. "Amazing. You'd literally do anything wouldn't you?" Turning a pointed look on her hand, he lifted it from his arm and dropped it. "Frankly, Ms. Price, I'd sooner stick my dick in a meat grinder. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a stolen child to find. Impossible as it may for you to comprehend, he's a hell of a lot more important than you. ~ Tami Hoag

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave. ~ Tami Hoag

You don't have to access the physical details to address the emotional damage within yourself. You can't escape your own experience. ~ Tami Hoag

Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity. ~ Tami Hoag

I liked my house. I liked my stuff. I had to start over once. I don't want to have to do it again. But life says, 'Tough bounce,' and what are my options? Take it on the chin and keep marching. ~ Tami Hoag

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it? ~ Tami Hoag

He was broken because of the army, and the army didn't want him because he was broken. ~ Tami Hoag

Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on. ~ Tami Hoag

She couldn't concentrate enough to lose herself in a book - her lifelong method of escape. ~ Tami Hoag

Man, y'all make the Addams family look like Ozzie and Harriet.(Annie) ~ Tami Hoag

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. ~ Tami Hoag

If you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere. ~ Tami Hoag

As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up. ~ Tami Hoag

Hatred is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die of it. ~ Tami Hoag

Pinched into a knot as she chewed, an expression that might have been concentration or a commentary on the tartness of the fruit. She wiped the juice from her over-inflated lower lip with the back of her hand. "Did he used to be on Days of Our Lives?" Sharon rolled her eyes. The bimbob made no comment. ~ Tami Hoag

I love everything about you. Don't you ever think I don't. Even when you make me mad, I love you so much I can hardly stand it. ~ Tami Hoag

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. ~ Tami Hoag

The bookcases were lined with titles, hundreds of books shelved by subject in alphabetical order.-Everything from aberrant behavior to the mysteries of zen. ~ Tami Hoag

Most violence committed against women is perpetuated by men. I once read a quote that the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her. ~ Tami Hoag

Tattoos are a road map of the bearer's personal journey. ~ Tami Hoag

Everyone was a victim of something. ~ Tami Hoag

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts. ~ Tami Hoag

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way - which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged. ~ Tami Hoag

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that. ~ Tami Hoag

Dennis killed me! ~ Tami Hoag

Throw up" Victor said.
Bacteria, he believed, would run up his arms and gain access to his brain through his ear canals. "Vomit. Puke. Spew. Disgorge. Regorge. Discharge- like excrement."
"Victor, stop it!" Doll snapped. "You're making me nauseous."
"Talk
vomit words. Sound and sound alike," he said. ~ Tami Hoag

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick. ~ Tami Hoag

We all change. The causes are different; that's all. Some people change because they want to, some because they have to. Sometimes it's a choice and sometimes it's not. You didn't get to pick. ~ Tami Hoag

Parker suspected that Jace had been born an adult. At nineteen he had a larger sense of duty and responsibility than ninety percent of the people Parker knew. ~ Tami Hoag

It was perfectly innocent.' That's what Gary Hart said. One day he's running for president, the next he's sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains. ~ Tami Hoag

It wasn't like she hadn't come across hot guys throughout the course of the last three years, so why was her heart racing? Why did she feel flushed? ~ Tami Lund

It is my name for you. Amaka is a Nigerian name and it means beautiful. ~ Tami Egonu

Love is an insanity that selfishly possesses the heart and mind and leaves barely any room for other thoughts and feelings. ~ Tami Egonu

What's your version of the perfect guy?"
"I guess I'd like someone who proves he cares by his actions instead of just saying it all the time."
"That's reasonable."
"And I'd like someone who has his own life, too. You know I work a lot of hours at the hospital, and I like what I do. I imagine I'd come to resent a guy who expects me to work a nine-to-five schedule just because it fits his needs."
"Anything else?"
"But he still has to be - " she cut herself off.
"Good in bed? ~ Tami Lund

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours. ~ Tami B Harriott

Brave Girl Boots A Forty-Day Journey to Brave TAMI WALKER ~ Tami Walker

Every one has a story someone in the world needs to hear. ~ Tami Belt

What is death but the opportunity for a new beginning? ~ Tami Egonu

The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it's rare that we're listened to. ~ Tami Egonu

Your financial situation is not a question of fate or luck, but a result of thoughts, emotions and actions - that generate money. ~ Tami Yaari

When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all. ~ Judith Hoag

Hatred is a poison and clouds the ability for knowledge. ~ Tami Egonu

Write your dream obituary and live that life! ~ Tami Holzman

Estrogen deficient woman are nothing but the walking dead. ~ Marie Hoag MBA

How can I?" Kennedy asked. "How can I trust someone again?"
Sabrina adjusted her veil and squeezed her fist around the white-with-blue-embroidery handkerchief in her hand. "You just do. I don't know how to explain it. You just reach a point where you realize this man is the one, and you are going to put all of your trust in him because you are so in love you don't really have a choice. ~ Tami Lund

Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments. ~ Emiko Jean

Ugliness hides in the light whilst darkness reveals the truest nature. ~ Tami Egonu

beautiful is the new gold/ ~ Tami Potter

Let's talk politics, to please Guy!"
"Sounds fine," said Mrs. Bowles. "I voted last election, same as everyone, and I laid it on the line
for President Noble. I think he's one of the nicest-looking men who ever became president."
"Oh, but the man they ran against him!"
"He wasn't much, was he? Kind of small and homely and he didn't shave too close or comb his
hair very well."
"What possessed the 'Outs' to run him? You just don't go running a little short man like that
against a tall man. Besides -he mumbled. Half the time I couldn't hear a word he said. And the
words I did hear I didn't understand!"
"Fat, too, and didn't dress to hide it. No wonder the landslide was for Winston Noble. Even their
names helped. Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost
figure the results. ~ Ray Bradbury

When you live life at altitude and then trip and fall - which we all do every day - you have a long way to fall and you may kill yourself. But if you're standing on the ground, you can fall again and again and simply get up, dust yourself off, and take the next step. ~ Tami Simon

So many people mean nothing to us, we pass one another by without acknowledgement, without comprehending the gifts many have to offer, if only we slowed down and realised we're not all so different. My front door isn't open to everyone, but I can tell a good one when I see them just like I know trouble when it's staring me in the face. ~ Tami Egonu

Jealousy can instigate the cruellest act, or more to the point, hatred can. Miss Bennett was the one who found Nathan lying at the bottom of the stairs in the cellar, said he must have slipped or something, especially with one leg being so much weaker than the other. They as good people never would have suspected their own daughter of pushing him. That she never showed emotion over her brother's death was put down to trauma. I could see what they could not - a child incapable of any kind of feeling apart from selfishness. I can still picture him now, lying on his stomach, his head twisted at an unnatural angle, eyes glazed like one of Rhiannon's dolls. She was then about seven years old with the face of an angel and a nature as cruel as anyone on death row. ~ Tami Egonu

We are all blinded by deceit of what society or family tells us is right. Some of us choose to break free. ~ Tami Egonu

But no one has seen a trace of lightbearers in over five hundred years. Somebody wiped them out. Probably our kind, trying to inherit their magic."

"Probably our kind eating them for dinner," Finn contributed to the conversation for the first time. "Back then we were slightly more primal."

"Slightly," Tanner remarked tongue in cheek. ~ Tami Lund

Nurse: Shame… you're way too pretty to be in a place like this, or to be depressed all the time. ~ Tami Tsansai

He did that slow perusal thing with his eyes that guys did when they wanted a girl to know they liked what they saw. A slow smile curved his lips. "Yep."

She recognized that look. She may have been out of the dating game for far too long, but she still understood the process. What she didn't know was how to respond. ~ Tami Lund

The women's health initiative standards for HRT is nothing but an embarrassment to all physicians, and I'm not sure why they have not retracted all the statements that came out of that joke of a study. ~ Marie Hoag MBA

The world is a reflection of how we see it and feel. ~ Tami Egonu

I think commercials get a bad rap, that there's no creativity to them, but I haven't found that to be entirely true. The process of auditioning for them can be tedious, but actually doing them can be really fun. ~ Judith Hoag

The wind changes direction within an instant and contains within it knowledge that can take away a life or spare it, as fate dictates. The wind likes you and fate will be kind, you just have to have hope. ~ Tami Egonu - A Rhapsody Of Dream

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful. ~ Tami Stronach

This time, I won't lose my way. I'm going to believe in myself. ~ Satoshi Shiki

The death of those considered expendable to achieve such goals only leaves blood to drown the earth with the memory of corruption and confusion. ~ Tami Egonu

(That saying about how God gives special needs children to special moms is crap. He gives special kids to moms who are already crazy themselves.) ~ Tami Lynn Tate