Parvum Opus Quotes

#1. I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It

Cheryl Strayed

#4. Fuck waiting for the world to change you; you start by trying to change it. And if you are pure of heart and your intentions are good, you can't lose. Even if nothing happens, you can't lose.

Ron Perlman

#5. I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Diane Ackerman

#6. What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

Sigmund Freud

#7. You're the only one Ze've Kelsey. You'll always be the only one.

Marissa Meyer

#8. Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

Alain De Botton

#9. My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

Anthony Jeselnik

#10. When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

James Howe

#11. The United States wore empire on its brow

Herman Melville

#12. Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

#14. If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

B.F. Skinner

#15. You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?

Thomas Harris