Parlay Patz Quotes & Sayings

The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or ... basically, sometimes you just have to keep going. — Jojo Moyes

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves. — Heather Donahue

Say you're beautiful," I whispered, stroking her.
"I'm beautiful."
"Good," I murmured, kissing her jaw then moving south. "Say it again. — Bijou Hunter

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient. — Julian Baggini

Dog becomes a good friend with man whether the man himself is good or not! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Clouds pass and disperse.
Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?
Is it for such I agitate my heart?
I am incapable of more knowledge.
What is this, this face
So murderous in its strangle of branches? -
Its snaky acids kiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults
That kill, that kill, that kill.
From the poem "Elm", 19 April 1962 — Sylvia Plath

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead

I am bigger on the inside
But you have to come inside to see me — Amanda Palmer

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. Algernon. Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Jack. I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture. It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private. — Oscar Wilde

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further. — Arthur Schopenhauer

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not. — Sarah Baker

Watch your mouth,' he cautions me. 'I've told you before, Ava. I'll do whatever it takes.'
'For what?' My voice is barely a whisper.
'To keep you — Jodi Ellen Malpas

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. — Xinran