Para Appreciation Quotes & Sayings

Because who knows? Who knows anything? Who knows who's pulling the strings? Or what is? Or how? Who knows if destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life? Another son might not have heard his mother's last words as a prophecy but as drug-induced gibberish, forgotten soon after. Another girl might not have told herself a love story about a drawing her brother made. Who knows if Grandma really thought the first daffodils of spring were lucky or if she just wanted to go on walks with me through the woods? Who knows if she even believed in her bible at all or if she just preferred a world where hope and creativity and faith trump reason? who knows if there are ghosts (sorry, Grandma) or just the living, breathing memories of your loved ones, inside you, speaking to you, trying to get your attention by any means necessary? Who knows where the hell Ralph is? (Sorry, Oscar.) No one knows.
SO we grapple with the mysteries, each in our own way. — Jandy Nelson

The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place. — Allison Kilkenny

Phd dissertations are for people who can't write books. — Anonymous

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots. — Dermot Davis

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly — Ken Blanchard

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory. — Dick Dale

I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that. — Peter Mandelson

Oppressing you, trapping you in an endless cycle of poverty and death, just because we think you are different from us? That is not right. And as any student of history can tell you, it will end poorly. — Victoria Aveyard

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. — Stephen Kinzer

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it. — Mary Lou Retton

There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money. — DMX

] I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted. — Manolo Blahnik