Parviainen Karen Quotes & Sayings

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Writing is learned by imitation. I learned to write mainly by reading writers who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and by trying to figure out how they did it. S. J. Perelman told me that when he was starting out he could have been arrested for imitating Ring Lardner. Woody Allen could have been arrested for imitating S. J. Perelman. And who hasn't tried to imitate Woody Allen? Students often feel guilty about modeling their writing on someone else's writing. They think it's unethical - which is commendable. Or they're afraid they'll lose their own identity. The point, however, is that we eventually move beyond our models; we take what we need and then we shed those skins and become who we are supposed to become. But — William Zinsser

You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least. — Chris Tucker

Never stay still, you'll end up with roots. — Adam Kinser

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. — Daisaku Ikeda

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life. — Laozi

An allusion is something we refuse to see, but we see what we want to see ... — Edna Stewart

They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had grown stagnant on dry land, and gave to their bodies even some sort of physical relief. First, the pulse of colour flooded the bay with blue, and the heart expanded with it and the body swam, only the next instant to be checked and chilled by the prickly blackness on the ruffled waves. Then, up behind the great black rock, almost every evening spurted irregularly, so that one had to watch for it and it was a delight when it came, a fountain of white water; and then while one waited for that, one watched, on the pale semicircular beach, wave after wave shedding again and again smoothly, a film of mother-of-pearl. — Virginia Woolf

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures. — John Stride

Bailey had profoundly changed the conversation around sexual identity away from the 1960s rhetoric of "choice" and "personal preference" toward biology, genetics, and inheritance. If we did not think of variations in height or the development of dyslexia or type 1 diabetes as choices, then we could not think of sexual identity as a choice. But — Siddhartha Mukherjee

not put in place, one wonders how insurance and pharmaceutical companies will treat our grandchildren if they have genetic information about them, perhaps even before they are even conceived. Insurance — Christine Kenneally

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee. — Marcus Aurelius

And his eyes were fluttering shut, and his sinner's smile- that wickedly wondrous thing- was less than an inch from mine. And soon enough, there was no space between them at all. He tasted like chances. — Mackenzie Herbert

My talent speaks for itself, I ain't gotta answer nobody else's questions. I'm going home, we're gonna have a party! — James Toney