Pardisgame Quotes & Sayings

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. — Karl Kraus

William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them, not even the last, and each was younger than the previous woman ... But after his personal life began to actually fall apart, he developed a set of values about the Constitution that turned out to maximize our autonomy and freedom. — Noah Feldman

To know that our Father in heaven has ordained our pain is not a comfoftable truth, but it is comforting. That our pain has a loving and wise and all-powerful purpose behind it is better than any other view
weak God, cruel God, bumbling God, no God. To know that in his hands "this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison" (2 Corinthians 4:17) is profoundly reassuring. — John Piper

Only those with passion can become masters. — Victor Niederhoffer

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker. — Dave Barry

She had seen them in turmoil all round her
love, hatred, vengeance, treachery
she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly strife she had emerged pure, happy in the arms of the man whom her wondrous adventures as much as his brilliant personality had taught her to love. — Emmuska Orczy

Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us. — Gudjon Bergmann

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. — Melina Marchetta

Gwen?"
"Yes."
"You know why we have to be together, don't you?"
" ... "
"I'm your selkie. — Terri Farley

What frightened her the most was the moment of those first notes, because that was when people really listened: She was changing the atmosphere in the room. — Elizabeth Strout

They found her with a nearly empty snifter of brandy on the nightstand, a book by her favorite novelist turned to the last page, and a smile on her face. — Dean Koontz

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. — Humphrey Carpenter