Paul Kearney Quotes

#1. I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

Paul Kearney

#2. Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

Paul Kearney

#3. That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

Paul Kearney

#4. It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.

Paul Kearney

#5. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

#6. My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

Annalena McAfee

#7. hey have a good day

Ellis Cose

#8. If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Xun Zi

#9. Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

Paul Kearney

#10. He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

Paul Kearney

#11. I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.

Paul Kearney

#12. But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.

Paul Kearney

#13. He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.

Paul Kearney

#14. No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

Paul Kearney

#15. What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Hermann Hesse

#16. If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe.

Barbara Pym