Parolinies Quotes & Sayings

When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know ... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone. — R.D. Laing

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient. — Craig Venter

What am I to call it? Diffidence? The fear of ridicule? Inverted vanity? What matters names, if it has brought me to this? I could never bear to be bustling about nothing; I was ashamed of this toy kingdom from the first; I could not tolerate that people should fancy I believed in a thing so patently absurd! I would do nothing that cannot be done smiling. I have a sense of humour, forsooth! I must know better than my Maker. And it was the same thing in my marriage," he added more hoarsely. "I did not believe this girl could care for me; I must not intrude; I must preserve the foppery of my indifference. What an impotent picture!"
"Ay, we have the same blood," moralised Gotthold. "You are drawing, with fine strokes, the character of the born sceptic."
"Sceptic? - coward!" cried Otto. "Coward is the word. A springless, putty-hearted, cowering coward! — Robert Louis Stevenson

To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain — Richard Marx

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics. — Isabel Briggs Myers

The Lord is my 'Strong Fortress'.
The Lord is my 'Solid Rock'. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them. — Deborah Wiles

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened. — Condoleezza Rice

Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful. — Victoria Schwab

It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took. — Joe Frazier

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go. — Lapo Elkann

You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now. — John Piper

Truly it is glorious, our being here. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. — Chuck Palahniuk