Peines Fish Quotes & Sayings

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel

She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled. — Sonya Hartnett

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. — Antonio Porchia

I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right. — Jerry Jones

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed — H.W. Brands

My hands moved up and down the keyboard, summoning great waves of music, each one crested with sorrow, loneliness, and anger. Tides of emotion rose and fell, gradually finding their way down my arms and to the keys, becoming harmonies that filled and then dissipated into the air like mist. — Sarah Beard

Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle. — Krishna Saagar

The revolution was a gift from God to the Romanian people. The Romanian people must now repay this gift by opening their hearts to people of all faiths, especially to those who suffered here in the past. — Robert D. Kaplan

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. — James Wolcott

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion. — Joe R. Lansdale

I am grateful for all the goodness of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago. — Ray Stannard Baker

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning. — Laura Linney

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas. — Moby

It is an open question whether or not "liberal democracy" in its present form can provide a thought-world of sufficient moral substance to sustain meaningful lives. This is precisely the question that Vaclav Havel, then newly elected as president of Czechoslovakia, posed in an address to the U.S. Congress. "We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics," he said. "We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions - if they are to be moral - is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success." What Havel is saying is that it is not enough for his nation to liberate itself from one flawed theory; it is necessary to find another, and he worries that Technopoly provides no answer. To — Neil Postman