Parlatines Quotes & Sayings

If you are describing any occurrence ... make two or more distinct reports at different times ... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole. — Henry David Thoreau

Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if the world were nothing more than giant hall empty of people. — Arthur Golden

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books. — Hamish Bowles

Fat Charlie, if someone ever ask if you want to live to be hunnert and four, say no. Everything hurt. Everything. I hurt in places nobody ain't discover yet. — Neil Gaiman

CHRIST ISN'T ASKING US TO BELIEVE IN OUR ABILITY TO EXERCISE UNWAVERING FAITH. HE IS ASKING US TO BELIEVE THAT HE IS ABLE. — B&H Publishing Group

At its core, stress is simply a state of mind. Everything else is after the fact. — Kiran Dintyala

What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are ...
Beyond reproach, I said.
He nodded gravely. Impossible to tell whether or not he meant it. — Margaret Atwood

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. — Jennifer Lopez

I want to tell you something," he whispered as he cupped her face into his hands. "What?" she asked, her breathing uneven, her hands clutching his shirt "You are totally off limits to Vince and the doctor. You belong to me." Luke continued to kiss her mouth while his hands traveled down her arms and reached the bottom of her shirt. — Lois L. Kasznia

... you could help people most by not giving them the burden of your heart. — Pico Iyer

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included — Adrienne Rich

Hey, girl. You awake over there?"
"Yeah, I'm awake."
Just this seems to satisfy him for a minute. Confirmation of awakeness, the fraternity of insomniacs. — Alden Bell

In an age when young people are encouraged to maximize self-interest and self-advancement, the grounds for altruism or even good behavior become obscured. Short of reverting to religious authority - itself on occasion corrosive of secular institutions - what can furnish a younger generation with a sense of purpose beyond its own short-term advantage? — Tony Judt

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes. — Robyn Davidson

Please,Talks a Lot," Jesse said persuasively. "You were his friend. You know he read the Book.He believed in the one God and his Son,Jesse. Please...I want to bury him as my people bury those they love." Tears began streaming down her cheeks again, but she wiped them away stubbornly. "Please," she repeated, "I cannot leave him to the birds.I cannot."
Talks a Lot came close and murmured, "But his spirit must be allowed to soar to the new hunting ground, Walks the Fire.The people will never understand."
"His spirit is already with the Father, Talks a Lot.That is what the book we read together teaches. I must do this last thing for Rides the Wind. — Stephanie Grace Whitson