Top 100 Pearl Of Quotes
#1. [F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation ...
Nikolai Gogol
#2. There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.
Andrea Pirlo
#3. Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.
Stephen Crane
#4. Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.
Hanshan
#5. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
John Balguy
#6. Susan said, "Have you given any thought to how we should spend Christmas?" "Only that we should be together." I glanced over at the softly snoring Pearl. "With Pearl, of course. Hawk, too. Maybe
Robert B. Parker
#7. Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.
Angelica Hopes
#9. Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#10. I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.
S.J Perelman
#11. Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price
it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
Roger Scruton
#12. You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.
Charles Portis
#13. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#14. Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish.
Jeanette Winterson
#15. As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
Johnny Marr
#16. The vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.
Brian Stableford
#17. I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.
Thom Yorke
#18. Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#19. What if the purpose of my life is not about me? Am I willing to give up all my dreams, my aspirations and comfort to find it/ Are you willing to pay the cost? This is the pearl of great price, the abundant life we are all seeking and, at the same time, petrified to find.
Jeff Goins
#20. When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.
Brennan Manning
#21. Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#22. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Live, love and enjoy the present moment. This moment is the pearl of your precious life.
Debasish Mridha
#24. How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Francois Fenelon
#25. The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.
Isaac McLellan
#26. Every pearl of your necklace touches my heart like a fresh flower of joy.
Debasish Mridha
#28. It was the only field, so far, in which the Pearl of Fortune had shown any precocity, other than the feat of keeping her head, her reason and her sense of the ridiculous amid conditions of civilized lunacy.
Dorothy Dunnett
#29. I am drunk with the beauty of life, I am at the verge of insanity. Every moment is a pearl of my life, so I have to enjoy every one of them.
Debasish Mridha
#30. The source of beauty in a man,
It is humbleness and grace;
Equality is the pearl of a king,
Justice his scepter;
Salvation is his crown.
Stephan Attia
#31. A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.
Jane Yolen
#32. If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not take yourself too seriously. Because when you get here, you might just find that you are not exactly who or what you thought you were.
Natasha Rendell
#33. Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#34. Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
#35. Are you?"
"What?"
"Venomous?"
Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. "Try me and see."
"Maybe later, after I've survived Michaela.
Nalini Singh
#36. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#38. There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#39. It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.
Pearl Cleage
#40. And the uniqueness of every moment
seeks the path from pain to a pearl.
Lina Kostenko
#41. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps.
Steven Johnson
#42. Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
Ken Burns
#44. Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.
Nancy Pearl
#45. Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
Pearl S. Buck
#46. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#47. Wish not for treasure you can hold,
No gleaming jewels, bright and cold,
For finer still than pearl or gold,
The treasure of a tale well told ...
Brian Holguin
#48. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#49. Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
Pearl Cleage
#50. With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.
Joan Juliet Buck
#51. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
#52. And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, Wild Gratitude, and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title August 13th.
Edward Hirsch
#53. We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.
James Lovegrove
#54. My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.
Anne Sexton
#55. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
Pearl S. Buck
#56. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.
Pearl Zhu
#57. Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
Pearl S. Buck
#58. The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!
Pearl S. Buck
#59. I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
Cameron Crowe
#60. Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
Pearl Cleage
#61. I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um,
it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.
Eddie Vedder
#62. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
#63. Asking big "WHY" question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.
Pearl Zhu
#64. The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.
Pearl S. Buck
#65. A man was leaning idly against an elm ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a student and too worn for a faculty member, stared at him with the familiar, insatiable gleam of the literary admirer.
Matthew Pearl
#66. But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
Pearl S. Buck
#67. My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
Sigourney Weaver
#68. While the individual contributions provide the "building block" of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.
Pearl Zhu
#69. Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.
Joni Mitchell
#70. The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
Grace Kelly
#72. Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
A.O. Scott
#73. An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.
Pearl S. Buck
#74. I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.
Matthew Pearl
#75. A decisive Board is cogitative, proactive, and supportive.
Pearl Zhu
#76. The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization's digitization journey increases.
Pearl Zhu
#77. The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
Pearl S. Buck
#78. Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.
Pearl Zhu
#79. I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
Pearl Cleage
#80. We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
Minnie Pearl
#81. Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#82. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.
Pearl Zhu
#83. Though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?
Pearl S. Buck
#84. There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.
Pearl Zhu
#85. Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored - it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck
#86. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'
Matthew Pearl
#87. Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.
Pearl Zhu
#88. Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.
Pearl Zhu
#89. The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.
Pearl Zhu
#91. I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
#92. A CIO needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical" or "creative.
Pearl Zhu
#93. There are seven mermaid princesses and seven pearls. The reason I sing is to convey my love. The reason the pearl sparkels is to brighten the sea. And so, I can never forget...the sound of the waves or the warmth of the sea.
Pink Hanamori
#94. Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.
Pearl Zhu
#95. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream
whatever that dream might be.
Pearl S. Buck
#96. One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
L. Ron Hubbard
#97. Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
Pearl S. Buck
#98. You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.
Pearl S. Buck
#99. To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.
Pearl Zhu
#100. Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
Rabindranath Tagore
