Parleys Fire Quotes & Sayings

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

He was looking forward to his visit not only for the pleasure of the shrewd dealing which far transcended mere gross profit, but with the sheer happiness of being out of bed and moving once more at free will, even though a little weakly, in the sun and air which men drank and moved in and talked and dealt with one another - a pleasure no small part of which lay in the fact that he had not started yet and was absolutely nothing under heaven to make him start until he wanted to. He did not still feel weak, he was merely luxuriating in that supremely gutful lassitude of convalescence in which time, hurry, doing, did not exist, the accumulating seconds and minutes and hours to which in its well state the body's slave both waking and sleeping, now reversed and time now the lip-server and mendicant to the body's pleasure instead of the body thrall to time's headlong course. — William Faulkner

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list. — John Aikin

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was ... — Sheridan Hay

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need. — Wendy Kopp

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. — Hermann Hesse

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it. — Carnie Wilson