Letter From Peking Quotes

#1. We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. You're the man now,' she said to me after my father died, 'you're the man.' Then she turned to Popeye, our calico tom, and said, 'You're the cat now, Popeye, you're the cat,' as if she'd always worn a veil over her face and had never known we were men and cats all along.

David Sedaris

#3. It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang].

Carroll Shelby

#4. Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Shelby Foote

#5. To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#6. And spirituality or what you call "religion" is mainly to understand this: that you don't require anything, you are a part of the totality, or reality.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Samuel Beckett

#8. Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

McKayla Maroney

#9. As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.

George MacDonald

#10. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#11. My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

Mitch Hedberg

#12. Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.

Christina Rossetti

#13. You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something!

William Goldman

#14. War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes ... missing parts ... The best you can do is pick up the pieces that are left and start to build again. It'll never be the way it was before.
Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming later this year!)

Bruce Jenvey

#15. I'm not a technology person.

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