Pekin Quotes

#1. [I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ...

William Jones

#2. All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

L.J.Smith

#3. Happy is the people who need no heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

#4. You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Rudolf Bing

#6. Writing is hard ... It gets harder when it becomes your career, your job, because it's no longer a hobby, it's no longer a manuscript hidden in your desk drawer. It becomes a platform from which the world can judge you. Your soul becomes target practice, and the critics hold the arrows.

Karina Halle

#7. If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Malcolm Bradbury

#8. Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Wendell Phillips

#9. [A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation ... is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Cleave

#11. After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home - she'd actually done it.

Tessa Dare

#12. I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

Ed Rendell

#13. The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims - bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.

Frances Mayes

#14. I usually don't really have breakfast.

Wendy Kopp