Devilish Pet Quotes & Sayings

In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy. — David Brin

The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. — Foundation For Inner Peace

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once I accepted the fact that I was bad luck, I shied away from group activities. And groups. And activities. I started spending a lot of time in my room, tucked under my covers reading books. There's only so much damage a book can do, and I wasn't worried about hurting myself. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.
Sure, I got lonely for a while. But getting invited to slumber parties just wasn't worth the stress of wondering if I might accidentally burn down the house with my flat iron or be the only survivor of a freak sleepover massacre. And loneliness is just like everything else - if you endure it long enough, you get used to it. — Paula Stokes

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. — Ansel Adams

Hurry, hurry, hurry, she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over. — John Cheever

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best. — Arnold Jacobs

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself. — T.D. Jakes

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own, — Scott Simon

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out. — Gina Barreca

When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection. — Peter Yarrow

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. — Henry Rollins

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever. — Deborah Moggach

Beauty will save the world"
- The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith. — Alastair Reynolds