Ross Parmenter Quotes

#1. In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

Ross Parmenter

#2. True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.

Ross Parmenter

#3. If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing - a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Because it's not always easy to know how to live.

Paula McLain

#5. The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Edward Gibbon

#6. You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Neil Gaiman

#7. They're both mad, I tell you, the two of them.
One's just shown it, the other's been that way since she was born.

Sophocles

#8. The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.

Ross Parmenter

#9. You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

Mother Teresa

#10. Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Oliver Joseph Lodge