Parsimonia Verbal Quotes

#1. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Werner Herzog

#2. Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?

David Sedaris

#3. In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

Melody Beattie

#4. One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, A child has beaten me in plainness of living.

Diogenes

#5. I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.

Dennis Ross

#6. For pale and trembling anger rushes in
With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare,
Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas,
Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

John Armstrong

#7. We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]

Alexander Pope

#8. God does not blame me for being an individual, but for my individualism. His greatest problem is not the outward divisions and denominations that divide His church, but our own individualistic hearts.

Watchman Nee

#9. The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action.

Peter Kreeft

#10. I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all.

Leslie Mann

#11. Don't go jumping off any rooftops. Don't run into the highway or set yourself on fire. It doesn't work that way. You won't end up where I ended up.

Rick Riordan

#12. These absurd showbiz queens are as much a part of New York street life as sirens, steam from manholes, or ghostly Asian deliverymen ferrying chop-suey-to-go on unlit bikes going the wrong way.

Edmund White