Inspirational Paddle Quotes & Sayings

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them. — Jonathan Stroud

My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze. They froze like criminals caught in the act. I didn't dare lick them. I wiped them guiltily on my napkin. He had no idea how deeply those words wounded me. They were like nails being driven into my flesh. I picked up the knife and fork. I had hardly ever used such instruments. My hands trembled. My sambar lost its taste. — Yann Martel

The Tralfamadorians tried to give Billy clues that would help him imagine sex in the invisible dimension. They told him that there could be no Earthling babies without male homosexuals. There could be babies without female homosexuals. There couldn't be babies without women over sixty-five years old. There could be babies without men over sixty-five. There couldn't be babies without other babies who had lived an hour or less after birth. And so on. It was gibberish to Billy. — Kurt Vonnegut

A beaten general is disgraced forever. — Ferdinand Foch

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own. — Bernard Malamud

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways. — Aung San Suu Kyi

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal. — Anne Lamott

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not. — Floyd Henderson

She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange. — Jimi Hendrix

The world is in motion, as it seems. — Utada Hikaru

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. — Katharine Hepburn

I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible. — Derek Jeter

Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance in toto, and which nevertheless in revenge proliferated sexual language, linguistic sexuality, analysis, dissection, deconstruction, exposure. They were theoretically knowing: they knew about phallocracy and penisneid, punctuation, puncturing and penetration, about polymorphous and polysemous perversity, orality, good and bad breasts, clitoral tumescence, vesicle persecution, the fluids, the solids, the metaphors for these, the systems of desire and damage, infantile greed and oppression and transgression, the iconography of the cervix and the imagery of the expanding and contracting Body, desired, attacked, consumed, feared. — A.S. Byatt

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing — George Carman

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight. — Dylan Moran

Know Many
Trust a Few
But Always Paddle your Own Canoe — Harmony Kent