Peasantlike Quotes & Sayings

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race. — Truman Capote

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us. — Thomm Quackenbush

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race. — Truman Capote

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is. — Dean Koontz

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida ... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life. — Kimberly Willis Holt

Scarcely a general can be found amongst them who admits that he lost a battle by his own bad leadership. — Heinz Linge

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed. — Jerry Greenfield

New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and ... you know, 72 hours of ice cream. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come. — Arthur Schnitzler

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence. — Mike Oldfield

Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin

His mother asked, "And when is a marriage successful?" He had the feeling she was about to provide the answer, the very answer that people the world over were searching for. And he was right. "When the wife loves the husband," Nadira told him. "Not just loves him, but is crazy about him! Only then. — Anat Talshir

Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves. — Glen Cook