Papou Ek Quotes & Sayings

The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry. — Robert Webb

The cake was sinfully decadent, dripping with chocolate, exactly the way a birthday cake should be. — Rysa Walker

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? — Paul Darrow

You'll meet someone soon. No one knows what's round the corner.
How many corners, because I feel like I've turned them all. I meet people all the time. It never works out. I don't know why. — Carrie Adams

Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly. — Peter Huber

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if A Midsummer Night's Dream was really a dream? — Lewis Mumford

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying. — Reed Hastings

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman. — Jennifer Sky

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure. — Terence McKenna

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. — Arthur Levitt

I don't know much about him. He is a carver in our bishop's city, a days journey from here; he has a great reputation as an artist. Artists usually are no saints, he's probably no saint either, but he certainly is a gifted, high-minded man. — Hermann Hesse

The process of miraculous change is twofold. One: I see my error or dysfunctional pattern. Two: I ask God to take it from me. The first principle without the second is impotent. As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here. You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either. The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him. He won't work without our consent. He cannot remove our character defects without our willingness, because that would be violating our free will. We chose those patterns, however mistakenly, and he will not force us to give them up. In asking God to heal us, we're committing to the choice to be healed. — Marianne Williamson

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity. — Seneca The Younger

From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton - letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter — Charles A. Cerami

I think to myself that when you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance. — Emily Giffin