Peetla Quotes & Sayings

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses. — Naveen Jain

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same means, the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become engrained in Eichmann's mentality. These lies changed from year to year, and they frequently contradicted each other; moreover, they were not necessarily the same for the various branches of the Party hierarchy or the people at large. But the practice of self-deception had become so common, almost a moral prerequisite for survival, that even now, eighteen years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, when most of the specific content of its lies has been forgotten, it is sometimes difficult not to believe that mendacity has become an integral part of the German national character. — Hannah Arendt

I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts. The indications revealed. That few of us realize life is quite surreal — Owl City

It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected. — Tananarive Due

Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential in music. All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve). — Gary F. Marcus

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing. — Stephen King

You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity. — Frederick Lenz

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. — Robert Hewison

someone like Grace. Someone exactly like Grace, with her Ted Bundy rants
and her calming presence and - hello, irony. — Elle Kennedy

I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise. — Charlie Maclean

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The public has a right to art
The public is being ignored by most contemporary artists.
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Art is for everybody.
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I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. — Keith Haring

I hate myself so much I want to stick a knife in my heart. — Patrick Ness

Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it ... — Pope Pius IV