Palermos Blue Quotes & Sayings

It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today. — Nikos Kazantzakis

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower. — Harry S. Truman

The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization. — Philip Streatfield

At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others. — Toni Morrison

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself. — Mahatma Gandhi

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement. — Jean-Georges Noverre

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love. — Aleksa Palladino

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. — Isaac D'Israeli

Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the body, but veil our eyes with tears or cover them with our hands. We do not stare at scars, which are places where the soul has struggled to leave and been forced back, closed up, sewn in. — J.M. Coetzee