Pearl 227 Quotes & Sayings

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts. — Gottfried Leibniz

I want to give him everything, and the things I can't give, I want him to take. — Alexis Hall

To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being. — Debasish Mridha

I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished. — Tom Green

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. — H.G.Wells

And each of them had an individuality of his own, a will of his own, a hope and a heart's desire; each was full of self-confidence, of self-importance, and a sense of dignity. And trusting and strong in faith he had gone about his business, the while a black shadow hung over him and a horrid Fate waited in his pathway. Now suddenly it had swooped upon him, and had seized him by the leg. Relentless, remorseless, it was; all his protests, his screams, were nothing to it - it did its cruel will with him, as if his wishes, his feelings, had simply no existence at all; it cut his throat and watched him gasp out his life. And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning? Who would take this hog into his arms and comfort him, reward him for his work well done, and show him the meaning of his sacrifice? — Upton Sinclair

Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music. — Nichelle Nichols

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort? — Jacki Weaver

VONNEGUT: I said that only one person on the entire planet benefited from the raid, which must have cost tens of millions of dollars. The raid didn't shorten the war by half a second, didn't weaken a German defense or attack anywhere, didn't free a single person from a death camp. Only one person benefited - not two or five or ten. Just one. INTERVIEWER: And who was that? VONNEGUT: Me. I got three dollars for each person killed. Imagine that. — Kurt Vonnegut

6And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. — Anonymous

Climbing is this long term, lifelong journey. It's really important to just take your time with it and keep it fun. I've seen a lot of people burn out because it starts becoming this job for them. It stops being fun. For me, it's been really important to keep it enjoyable. Listen to your motivation. — Chris Sharma

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen. — Michael Caine

She was the only thing that held together the fragile, provisional me. — Haruki Murakami