Peettante Quotes & Sayings

When we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones. — Mark Twain

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments ... — Kazuo Koike

Are you sure that being like everyone else will make you happy? — Lauren Oliver

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats ... — T.H. White

I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn't quite happen. I guess I'm someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see. — Donald Fagen

Beware of those bearing grief in comprehensible words. — John Mateer

My home is a red desert that trembles with spirits and bones.

There are two reasons I came here: my father's death, and the lion man who prowled my dreams. Perhaps it was coincidence, but a man--half wild, ravenous beyond words--slid from the dream world into the mud of the waking one the same year my father left this world for another.

Ghosts. Paw prints. I have tried to stay put. — Amy Irvine

learn the lessons before they are over. Life is a composition of series and sequence of lessons. Each lesson comes with its own lessons to learn. our failure to learn the lessons of one shall be the reasons to learn another lesson with similar lessons. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle. — Jerry Spinelli

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it. — David Walliams

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not. — Vironika Tugaleva

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy. — KAORI