Paguran Quotes & Sayings

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. — E. M. Forster

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. — Michelle Bachelet

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides — Daniel Willey

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only ... with the idea God has of you. — Miguel De Unamuno

I could only reply that I think---I theorise--that something--something else--happens to the memory over time. For years you survive with the same loops, the same facts and the same emotions...The events reconfirm the emotions--resentment, a sense of injustice, relief--and vice versa. There seems no way of accessing anything else; the case is closed. But what if, even at a late stage, your emotions relating to those long-ago events and people change? That ugly letter of mine provoked remorse in me...I felt a new sympathy for them--and her. Then, not long afterwards, I began remembering forgotten things. — Julian Barnes

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. — Vanessa Marcil

That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do. — Li-Young Lee

Echo's eyes plead with me as she waits for an answer.
Stay with me.
Not here.
Not with him.
With me.
That's my answer. — Katie McGarry

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross

You can read a lot about a person by their features and what they do with them. But, getting to know someone, who they really are, takes time, he said. — Tarryn Fisher

She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they'd been killed. She had fans in heaven ... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate. — Alice Sebold

Sin, but sin boldly. — Augustine Of Hippo

Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation. — D. V. Ager