Tantalus Quotes & Sayings
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I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. —
Lord Randolph Churchill

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage. —
J.K. Rowling

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross. —
Richard Paul Evans

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized. —
Agyness Deyn

The past five years had informed me about human sorrow. While no two griefs are the same, nobody understands suffering like those who've been there. —
Helen Brown

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles. —
David Lean

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out. —
George Russell

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. —
Albert Einstein

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else. —
Frank Zappa

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by
Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy. —
Tony Lema

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. —
Salman Rushdie

I told
Tantalus to go chase a doughnut. —
Rick Riordan

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy —
Benjamin Franklin

The covetous man pines in plenty, like
Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. —
Thomas Adams

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. —
Patrick Modiano