Pearl Buyers Quotes & Sayings

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. — Rachel Cusk

The body says what words cannot. — Martha Graham

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. — Iris Murdoch

They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained. — Thomas Malory

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored? — Ani DiFranco

reconciliation is radical because it is biblical. — Curtiss Paul DeYoung

Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope - in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see to that. — James Baldwin

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective. — Daniel H. Pink

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A conscious lifetime ... is a treasure beyond value. — Gary Zukav

You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you — John Steinbeck

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower. — Agnes Denes

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd — William Shakespeare

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair. — Julius Lester

Nowhere is it written that you can't do it. — Elena Ferrante