Jonathan Pie Quotes

#1. Life kicks you on the face, especially the moment you take the helmet off your head to stop and rest.

Vikrmn

#2. I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.

Charles Baudelaire

#3. I can't even say 'hair pie,' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits ...

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry
Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

William Cowper

#5. I'd like to see a world where, if a teenager fears she's seeing/hearing things, she feels as comfortable seeking help as she would if she found a lump on her leg.

Kelley Armstrong

#6. I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks ... with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages ...

Deborah Priya Henry

#7. It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#8. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known,

Michael Morpurgo

#10. People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.

George Eliot

#11. Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.

Kenan Malik

#12. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

#13. [The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Ronald Reagan

#14. I really enjoy pie.

Jonathan Face

#15. Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

Bill Plotkin

#16. What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Jerry Seinfeld

#17. "After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

Max Beerbohm