Paspaley Pearls Quotes & Sayings

I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background. — Helen Oyeyemi

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas. — Jonathan Franzen

Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction. — Kellie Elmore

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. — William Hazlitt

A total stranger one black day
knocked living the hell out of me-
who found forgiveness hard because
my(as it happened)self he was
-but now that fiend and i are such
immortal friends the other's each — E. E. Cummings

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. — Caspar David Friedrich

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays. — Patrick O'Brian

Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all. — Abhijit Naskar

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have never died all my life — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You have to survive because I won't live in a world without you. — Lauren Kate

We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people. — Terri Sewell