Peahen And Peacock Quotes & Sayings

Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself? — Alicia Ostriker

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so. — George Herbert

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually ... your life experience. — Esther Hicks

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. — Paul Wesley

Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment. — Oscar Micheaux

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality. — James Branch Cabell

If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The peahens waddled round, following the peacock wherever he went. He couldn't see in the night, so he wandered around aimlessly in the pen. Go the other way, she wanted to scream at the gimpy peahen. Stop worrying about where he's going and just rest. — Jennifer Close

The fire of love or fire of knowledge creates unpleasantness or a sense of longing in the beginning, but it moves on to the blossoming of bliss, the blossoming of fullness. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome. — Philip Sidney