Pacileos Great Quotes & Sayings

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future. — Robert Plant

I realized that I couldn't remember a time when you weren't the first thing I thought of in the morning or the last before I fell asleep at night. You own me, Evie. You always have. — Mia Sheridan

Baby No Matter What You Do ; Im Going To Stay Standing =) — Monica Perez

Rage cools fast without an accessible target. — Julia Glass

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. — James Russell Lowell

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books. — Frank Delaney

When I reached for my girl and showed her how much I did indeed need her, and told her with words too, I knew then that the best gamble of my life had not been the cards I'd played, but that one night on a London street, when a beautiful American girl tried to walk out in the dark, and I played the most important hand I'd ever been dealt, and went ... .all in. — Raine Miller

I believe my strength has something to do with memory, with that concept of fluid time. For while I recall with clarity the terror of abuse, I also recall the green and lovely dream of childhood, the moist membrane of a leaf against my nose, the toads that peeled a golden pool in the palm of my hand. Pleasures, pleasures, the recollections of which have injected me with a firm and unshakable faith. I believe Dostoevski when he wrote, "If one had only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may be the means of saving us." I have gone by memory. — Lauren Slater

The creative writer is compulsively concrete ... His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and persuade, because ideas in their conceptual state are simply not dramatic. They have to be put into the form of people and actions ... — Wallace Stegner

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. — Herbert Spencer

Alleging that the Mormons had committed a long list of treasonous acts, in May 1857 Buchanan dispatched a contingent of federal officials to restore the rule of law in Utah, including a new territorial governor to replace Brigham Young. More ominously, the new president ordered twenty-five hundred heavily armed soldiers to escort these officials into Salt Lake City and subdue the Saints if necessary. For all intents and purposes, the United States had declared war on the Mormons. — Jon Krakauer

The two foundations; one inward, the other outward; grace, miracles; both supernatural. — Blaise Pascal