Peevyhouse V Quotes

#1. Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don't. They follow her like tame wolves.
I thought Ian said it wasn't possible to tame wolves.
It isn't.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

Jocelyn Murray

#3. However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.

Arjuna Ardagh

#4. I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

John Carney

#5. If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

Lauren Bacall

#6. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

C.S. Lewis

#7. To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

Timothy Winter

#8. I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#9. I think I would have liked to have been a twin. Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#10. I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

Bill Callahan

#11. Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

Giuseppe Garibaldi

#12. On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we'd lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, 'At least they can't charge us for moonlight.' Although later they did, by way of imposing a curfew and fining those of us who broke it.

Parker Peevyhouse

#13. The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Orison Swett Marden

#14. Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.

Robert M. Pirsig

#15. He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels, but in the knowledge that he has satisfied himself.

Tom Holt

#16. Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

Charles Farrar Browne