Penurious Quotes

#1. In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

Henry A. Kissinger

#2. Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Emily Dickinson

#3. Well, chaos was not unfamiliar to him. In daily life, his emotions were chaos. He let himself become a vessel for them, letting feeling roar through him, pulling him around like a kite, boiling him like water in a kettle, dissolving him in a whirl of elements.

Mary Gaitskill

#4. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

Vironika Tugaleva

#5. No," she said, answering his eyes. "I can never regret."[ ... ]"I can sorrow," she offered gently, "but it's not the same thing.

Peter S. Beagle

#6. She finally realized where they were. 'This is Legoland!

Charlie Higson

#7. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.

Karleen Koen

#8. It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

Jim Garrison

#9. I was hungry, but I was nervous too. You were so new and I didn't want to frighten you away. I didn't want to frighten myself away.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

Rick Remender

#11. I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

Emma Watson

#12. And like I've said before, sometimes its better to do bad things for the right reasons than good things for the wrong ones. Right?

Alexander Gordon Smith

#13. Deploring other people
their lack of perfection
had always been our sport.

Jonathan Franzen

#14. Being brave is not a part of your
personality, it's your job. It's what you owe the people who love you.

Kate Le Vann

#15. The ghosts in the house are ours, and I just want to be with them.

Ava Dellaira

#16. Hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

Jim Butcher

#17. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

David W. Orr