Ga Perov Split Quotes & Sayings

She pulled the pot of apple balm from her pocket. [ ... ] Eli snatched it from her palm and hurled it into the darkness, into the lake. 'Hey!' Gracie protested. 'Why would you do that?' He took a deep breath. His shoulders lifted, fell. 'Because I've spent nine months thinking of apples.'
"Heard, Scales, Tongue, Tail" by Leigh Bardugo — Stephanie Perkins

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. — Karl Marx

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. — Sheena Iyengar

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. — Jerzy Kosinski

Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship. — Tom Felton

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it. — Michael Behe

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don't learn to control it, it'll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it'll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don't you won't be able to achieve your objective or save your life. — Mike Tyson

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all. — Nelson Mandela

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness." — Sogyal Rinpoche

Mortal duty has weight, things that have weight have gravity, and so the duty to bear mortal responsibility pulled me back. — Paul Kalanithi

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public. — Samuel Johnson

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. — Thomas Keneally

I learn life from the poets. — Germaine De Stael

Light is the left hand of darkness. — Ursula K. Le Guin