Lajla Pernaska Quotes & Sayings

I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again. — Nina LaCour

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing. — Augustus William Hare

Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance? — Candace Schuler

I quickly learned that the illusion of appearance will always outweigh the truth of what's really inside. — Carian Cole

Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury. — H.L. Mencken

Money is like love, you have to give it to get it back. — Debasish Mridha

It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom. — Isaac Asimov

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible. — John Milton

What if they all left? What if everyone else flew to the Otherlands or went still and I was here alone? Would I keep going? I would. I can't seem to treat this life I have as anything but the only thing. — Ally Condie

While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of. — Ashley Mae Hoiland

Souraya thought those days that she knew so many songs about the misery of love because pain kept love within the boundaries of time, and knowable, whereas what she was experiencing passed beyond the horizon of birth and death; it was like the eternal life the prophets spoke of. A gesture, a kiss, a task, a sentence had a golden elemental endlessness, like the scenes in the murals painted in the island houses. — Patricia Storace

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. — Jan Schakowsky

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while ... — William Faulkner

She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here. — Kami Garcia