Laura Petrie Quotes

#1. Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Jose Marti

#2. The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

Elliott Erwitt

#4. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Tove Jansson

#5. What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

Martin Buber

#6. As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

Alex Berenson

#7. I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.

Snoop Dogg

#8. If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Fay Weldon

#9. I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

Maria Menounos

#10. It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

Erik Weihenmayer

#11. For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#12. It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.

James S.A. Corey

#13. Adapt or die. Some

Andrew S. Grove

#14. The world crashed on me. I smiled like an idiot as I stood up and rushed away hoping he'd forget we had ever spoken. I walked away from the Company and Sonia, but mostly from Giovanni. I had finally met an awesome guy who did not look like a thug and he was four years older than me?

Gaia B. Amman

#15. How was it that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this - smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?

Truman Capote