Pardaillan Si Quotes & Sayings

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence. — Pankaj Mishra

The body of Christ was bland. — Francis Nehilla

Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun. — Chelsea Handler

I thought of myself as an itinerant brain
the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute. — Margaret Atwood

Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes. — Eliot Spitzer

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness — Tara Brach

A good man always knows his limitations. — Clint Eastwood

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization. — Aime Cesaire

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler. — Ann Aguirre

Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly 'finished' and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions, — Malcolm Gladwell

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. — Elvis Presley

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. — May Sarton

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. — Rainer Maria Rilke