Milies Pilio Quotes & Sayings

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha

Darla never kept any keepsakes. She said that the memories I needed to keep were the ones in my head. — Tonya Kappes

It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike. — Robert Mankoff

Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the bring of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing. — George Saunders

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else. — Caroline Thompson

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. — Marcus Aurelius

I howl for my wife, for my father. For Ragnar and Quinn and Pax and Narol. For all the people I've lost. For all they would take. I howl because I am a Helldiver of Lykos. I am the Reaper of Mars. And I have paid for access to this bunker with my flesh, all so that I might either die with my friends or see our enemies brought to justice. — Pierce Brown

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead. — James Thurber

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before. — Thomas Watson

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. — P.D. James

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. — Mark Twain

When the natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the power of perceiving God's will and the whole life is kept in simplicity. — Oswald Chambers

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young. — Clive Owen

Any investor unwise or patriotic enough to hang on to gilt-edged securities (consols or the new UK War Loans) would have suffered inflation-adjusted losses of -46 per cent by 1920. Even the real returns on British equities were negative (-27 per cent).51 Inflation in France and hyperinflation in Germany inflicted even more severe punishment on anyone rash enough to maintain large franc or Reichsmark balances. By 1923 holders of all kinds of German securities had lost everything, — Niall Ferguson

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it. — Roger Williams