Parrens Quotes & Sayings

Jenny held
her breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster. — Adam Yamey

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. — B.F. Skinner

I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals. — Tommy Lee Jones

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. — Confucius

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money. — Khaled Mashal

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine. — Laozi

Can this be in human nature! - Can such horrible perversion of right be permitted! Can man, who calls himself endowed with reason, and immeasurably superior to every other created being, argue himself into the commission of such horrible folly, such inveterate cruelty, as exceeds all the acts of the most irrational and ferocious brute. Brutes do not deliberately slaughter their species; it remains for man only, man, proud of his prerogative of reason, and boasting of his sense of justice, to unite the most terrible extremes of folly and wickedness! — Ann Radcliffe

How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker? — Miranda Kenneally

She pulled back and murmured, "I'm still mad at you." "Are you?" His wounded voice had descended into Stygian depths. He pressed open-mouthed kisses to her jaw. "Yes." She yanked at his hair in emphasis. He grunted, but her grip didn't prevent him from lowering his mouth to hers again. He nipped at her lips and then licked at them, softening the sting. "I'll have to see what I can do to regain your good graces. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet she didn't; the words were not what was really important. And wasn't that right? Words had never been important, only strings, and the strings had shapes like - but not like -the ones around the man. Only the man had disappeared, too, and that was alright, because she, Miri, Miranda Serena Sharifi, was disappearing, was sliding down a steep long chute and each meter she traveled she became smaller and smaller until she had disappeared and was invisible, a weightless transparent ghost that neither twitched nor stammered, in the corner of a room she had never seen before. — Nancy Kress

I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me. — Adam Garcia

Never forget who you are, never forget where you came from and why you are here on this beautiful planet. — Euginia Herlihy

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling. — Clint Eastwood

Oh, the world appears to work smoothly enough, like a toy town where the only business is the constant shifting of goods and wastes. If that were all, how easy to live - buy your food, put out the garbage. But the toys and models and dolls and the world's looks are treacherous. They teach children it will be easy. The real problem of consumption and disposal are nothing like what children are led to suspect. — Josephine Humphreys