Parellas Quotes & Sayings

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. — Victor Hugo

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. — Sam Brownback

You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it. — Dave Sim

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom. — Paula Cole

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down. — James Bay

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged. — Amy Richards

The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon. — Phil Pringle

As Licklider explained, the sensible goal was to create an environment in which humans and machines "cooperate in making decisions." In other words, they would augment each other. "Men will set the goals, formulate the hypotheses, determine the criteria, and perform the evaluations. Computing machines will do the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for insights and decisions in technical and scientific thinking. — Walter Isaacson

I don't know. We've kissed. It was nice."

"Nice? Nice is getting an extra shot of espresso in a latte. Nice is finding a dollar on the street. Nice is generic. — L.L. Bucknor

So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh, I have a photo session first thing in the morning! — Lita Ford

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. — David McCullough

The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country. — Bob Corker

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly. — Lauren Weisberger