John Hamilton Gray Pei Quotes & Sayings

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities. — Ortega Y Gasset

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. — Lao-Tzu

loud laughter mixed with the chirp of crickets. A moth hit — Angela M. Sanders

Please!" I stop my pacing, glare at him. "Is that all you can think about at a time like this?"
Gabriel rolls up on one elbow and smiles at me. "I'm a guy. It's what I think about all the time. — Carolyn MacCullough

I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia, — Jelena Jankovic

The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking — Dmitry Dyatlov

Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey) — Patricia Briggs

We need change. I mean, our traditions are important. We shouldn't give up on those. But sometimes, I think we're misguided."
"Misguided?"
"As time's gone on, we've gone along with other changes. We've evolved. Computers. Electricity. Technology in general. We all agree those make our lives better. Why can't we be the same in the way we act? Why are we still clinging to the past when there are better ways to do things? — Richelle Mead

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. — Scott Cook

Your beauty trumped my doubt — Mumford And Sons

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl. — Christina Ricci

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes. — Jose Mujica

His Magnificence - Your Manifestation.I will make of thee a great nation — Ikechukwu Joseph

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan