Palperen Quotes & Sayings

In order to hate imperialism, you have got to be part of it. — George Orwell

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God. — Horace Mann

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey. — John Allen Paulos

They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines — Virginia Woolf

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy. — Anthony Doerr

I was not in favor of U.S. troops in Lebanon. And I voted against it. — John Kasich

Norstrom always used to say that I had two
different brains working alternatively in my head:
the well developed brain of a fool and the un-
developed brain of a sort of genius. — Axel Munthe

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To — Gloria Steinem

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. — Nancy Gibbs

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God — John Irving

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms. — George Santayana

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches. — Stetson Kennedy

Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success. — Atul Gawande

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary. — William Hazlitt

At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time. — Rosie O'Donnell