Peadar Quotes & Sayings

She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals. — Peadar O'Guilin

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it. — Christine Keeler

To say that ... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. — B.F. Skinner

At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves. — Peadar O'Guilin

She says, "I'm going to live. And nobody's going to stop me." She believes every word of it. — Peadar O'Guilin

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves. — Francis Collins

Grand Canyon tours from Las Vegas come in a variety of forms, but by far the most common way to visit is by bus. Busing into the Canyon takes longer than the other types of tour, but is certainly more affordable and is probably a better option for family vacations. This allows you to get right up to the edge of the canyon itself, ensuring that you can appreciate the incredible depth. If you want to save some money on your trip, and have an extra day to spend traveling to and from the Canyon, then taking the tour by Big Horn Tours is a great way to do so. — Jose Velasco

She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away. — Peadar O'Guilin

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one. — Niki Lauda

bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom — Rupi Kaur

Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing. — Peadar O'Guilin

Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species. — Peadar O'Guilin

They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness. — Peadar O'Guilin

There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings. — Peadar O'Guilin

The redhead shrugs. She doesn't care. And neither should Nessa. Not if she wants to live. — Peadar O'Guilin

His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject. — Peadar O'Guilin

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt. — Peadar O'Guilin

It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission. — Elizabeth Kostova

The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings. — Peadar O'Guilin

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have, which yet all would admit that man could not afford to pay for. Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes be content with less? — Henry David Thoreau