Parisse Portrait Quotes & Sayings

In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding through the frantic beating in my breast. It is there in the dry terror in my throat, in the pricking of the rats' nervous feet in the darkness. Christian has not come home all the night long. I know, for I have lain in this darkness for hours now with my eyes stretched wide, yearning for my son's return. — Ned Hayes

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue ... and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... Don't you think that must mean something? — Edie Sedgwick

She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither. — Tess Gerritsen

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it. — Marianne Williamson

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. — Tia Carrere

HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson

Man's most dangerous enemy is the one he was once closest to. — S. Hussain Zaidi

Soon we were downloading ourselves
into laptops, phones or pads, freer
than we had hoped,

floating centrifugally across the Internet
to swim alongside forgotten
selfies, spam emails and porn — Cyril Wong

So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people. — DJ Spooky

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.' — Tyler Cowen

These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,' he said, vanishing up to his neck. 'They happen only in nightmares.'
His head spiralled and he was gone. — Marissa Meyer

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us. — R.C. Sproul

The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack. — Kelli Swofford Nielsen