Peaknis Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. — John Updike

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success. — Denise Juneau

Not all monsters do monstrous things. — Mackenzi Lee

You have a beautiful classy mind
but I find you physically unattractive — Dannie Abse

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. — Alexander Chase

It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights. — Helena Bonham Carter

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, 'for His mercy endureth forever. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains. — Robert Michael Pyle

An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment. — John McCain

There is no fighter smarter than me. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis
Mr. P.: Go to hell — Rachel Caine

Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savoured of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconscious of having learned such lessons; but they would remember and practice them long after they had forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the Roses. — L.M. Montgomery

I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake. — Donald Sterling

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death. — Kat Dennings

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it. — Edward Dahlberg

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. — Edwin Booth