Paaras Parker Quotes & Sayings

Don't complain. Change. — Brandon Sanderson

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

From this day, you are no longer children. If you have to fight, even if it is a friend, put him down as fast and hard as you possibly can. Kill if you have to, or spare him - but beware putting any man in your debt. Of all things, that causes resentment. Any warrior who raises his fist to you must know he is gambling with his life and that he will lose. If you cannot win at first, take revenge if it is the last thing you do. You are traveling with men who respect only strength greater than theirs, men harder than themselves. Above everything else, they respect success. Remember it. — Conn Iggulden

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection. — Bernard Bailyn

Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that. — Christopher Fowler

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount. — Kenneth Blackwell

Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy. — Nonito Donaire

The plural of anecdotes is not data — Ben Goldacre

And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'. — Mia Castile

By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a 'child', of being wholly
subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good — John Holt

Surviving is good, but overcoming is better. — Shelley Hendrix

He had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style. — Matt Bondurant