Pestman China Quotes

#1. You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

George Strait

#2. You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

Eugene Jarecki

#3. The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...
all situational permutations of basic goodwill
depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to notice both what was happening around me and what was happening as my internal response. [p.50]

Sylvia Boorstein

#4. And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. Born on February 29th my mum always said I was an awkward bugger, right from the start.

CJ

#6. Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says.
"Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.

Yiyun Li

#7. You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

#8. We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.

Dana Perino

#9. Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

Emanuel Lasker

#10. Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Murray Gell-Mann

#11. It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Anthony Storr

#12. Structure of creation. Nature herself is maya; natural science must perforce

Paramahansa Yogananda

#13. I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Izaak Walton

#14. On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Jonathan Kozol