Piringer Pete Quotes

#1. I had never feared insomnia before
like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Lorrie Moore

#2. Some people need to be in the presence of truth, I think, others beauty, and we were each discovering on which side the other one fell.

Ruth Curry

#3. Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

Bruce Lansky

#4. If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Douglas Horton

#5. There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try. They're what the dead person has to take with him to his grave. Like a valuable piece of luggage.

Haruki Murakami

#6. There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.

Craig De Ruisseau

#7. I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Saul Bellow

#8. I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.

Elle King

#9. What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving? ... One enslaves, the other liberates.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#10. Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.

Sara Shepard

#11. If wishes were horses, what the heck would I need wishes for?

Elisabeth Wheatley

#12. Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Philippe Perrin

#13. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

Samuel Johnson

#14. "Save more tomorrow" is a nudge to help people do what they know they want to do, which is save more, but they can't bring themselves to save more now. Just like many of us are planning to go on diets next month, or maybe in two months, certainly not tonight.

Richard Thaler