Papelnco Quotes & Sayings

One cannot make bargains for blisses
Or catch them like fishes in nets
And sometimes the things that life misses
Help more than the things that it gets. — Alice Carey

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it? — Rick Riordan

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it. — Aldous Huxley

I know you pretty well."
"Better than anyone I think."
I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought. — Kenneth Oppel

We don't go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don't think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether it's our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment. — Angela Davis

Don't do anything stupid." - Oz
"Like what?" - Colt
"I don't know, but whatever it is, don't do it." - Oz — Jon S. Lewis

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. — Luc De Clapiers

we no longer live in a nation, but in a Homeland. — Gore Vidal

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot