20 Pearls Quotes & Sayings

Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot ... — Barbara Woodhouse

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. — Pema Chodron

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim — David Icke

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time. — Andy Stanley

It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves.
There was motion below her. There were people on the shelves.
They clung to the edges of the cases and moved across them in expert scuttles. They wore ropes and hooks and carried picks on which they sometimes hung. Dangling from straps they carried notebooks, pens, magnifying glasses, ink pads, and stamps.
The men and women took books from the shelves as they went, checked their details, leaning against their ropes, replaced them, pulled out little pads and made notes, sometimes carried the books with them to another place and reshelved it there.
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I'm Margarita Staples. She bowed in her harness. 'Extreme librarian. Bookaneer. — China Mieville

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. — Amanda Palmer

War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. — Alan K. Simpson

You won't solve your problems by drowning others in them. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky. — George R R Martin

She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed to hear that word, yet had never known the hope, or expectation, that it would. — Shehanne Moore

Some people reach the age of sixty before others. — Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood