Padell Quotes & Sayings

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces. — Margaret Pargeter

I found out that "Shame is a reaction to other people's criticism, an acute personal chagrin at our failure to live up to our obligations and the expectations others have of us. Personal desires are sunk in the collective expectation. (Shame is) the primary device for gaining control over children and maintaining control over adults — Paul G. Hiebert

Change the world! In Pontevin's view, what a monstrous goal! Not because the world is so admirable as it is but because any change leads inevitably to something worse. — Milan Kundera

This ghost angel told me that you were inside that demon over there." She points to Beliel who seems on the verge of losing consciousness in the passenger seat. "He said that you might come out any minute. I didn't believe him of course. That's crazy talk. But still, you never know." She shrugs. "And look what happened." She squints at me suspiciously. "It is you, isn't it? — Susan Ee

deeds," Stanley remembered later. — Martin Dugard

It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree. — Stephen Hawking

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country." — Tecumseh

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language. — Patrick Mouratoglou

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it. — Michelle Obama

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written. — Mac Davis

Who knows what harm may be done to a man by hurrying a spiritual process in him? — George MacDonald

When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave. — Cormac McCarthy

What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self? — Marie Forleo