Palpos Quotes & Sayings

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. — Chuck Palahniuk

Everybody knew that you should never provoke a rattlesnake, much less tie it into a bow. But that didn't stop Judd. What did stop him was the rattlesnake. — Demetri Martin

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. — Samuel Butler

The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive. — Philip Yancey

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. — Louis L'Amour

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love? — John Donne

It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction. — Natasha Tsakos

I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven. — Alice Sebold

Feel free to scream, whisper, and everything in between. I want to hear it all. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name. — J.R.R. Tolkien