P Ret Quotes & Sayings

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned. — Cameron Diaz

I got to the threshold and looked up and figured I could not do it, but also knew the only way through was up. — John Green

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape? — Dolores Huerta

Claire: So we do nothing?
Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen. — Rachel Caine

I'm not playing daddy. I am Daddy and you are Mommy. Shouldn't we be making out instead of fighting? — Toni Aleo

Your integrity is sacrosanct. It is who you are. Never let anyone step on your integrity - that's absolutely where you must stand solid. — Ret. Gen. Peter Pace

Your taste in music, the kinds of books you enjoy, even your favorite foods all contribute to the person you are and the portfolio you're creating - and therefore, make up your calling. — Jeff Goins

Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but resisting, began the second. Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently, that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it's not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive one tabloid of cascara sagrada. Life might be so. It did not move or touch him but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly season. He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell. Neat certainly. Matcham often thinks of the master-stroke by which he won the laughing witch who now. Begins and ends morally. Hand in hand. Smart. He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds thirteen and six. — James Joyce

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? — Johann Martin Usteri

Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and began making Picassos...it is a potentially fatal side-effect of success for any artist... Would it be a parody of modernism's self-referentiality to describe this point as one where the artist stops thinking like an artist and starts [painting] like an art historian? — John Jacobus

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul. — Mary Faustina Kowalska

To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.- Capt. Bligh(ret.) — Robert Asprin

Faith steals upon you like dew: some days you wake and it is there. And like dew, it gets burned off in the rising sun of anxieties, ambitions, distractions. — Christian Wiman

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much. — Alan Ayckbourn

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven - at least in this life - was neither a time nor a place
to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to
leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears.
Very much on the verge of tears.
And very frightened. — Mary Balogh

I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."

Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.) — Gary Matsumoto

A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood,
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying — Charles Lamb

The ferret, hunting,
eyes on the ground,
never hears footsteps
of the hawk — Andrew Vachss

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror — Peter Lynch