Paraladra Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone. — Annie Leonard

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. — Dan Savage

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or mineral. — Joni Mitchell

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

Things can hurt and not harm us. In fact they can even be good for us. And things that feel good can be very harmful to us. — Henry Cloud

You know only insofar as you can measure. — Lord Kelvin

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice. — Desi Arnaz

He's not going to sell any of those caps. He should just let the monkeys keep them. They are the only ones that want them anyway. — Jim Gaffigan

They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there. — Immortal Technique

Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you
want to do - if you can. — Richard Ford

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home. — Bob Lemon

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in. — Philip Johnson

'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love. — Greg Van Eekhout