Peiro Vento Quotes & Sayings

The fate of the country ... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. — Henry David Thoreau

Remember what writer Colin Marshall says: Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide. — Austin Kleon

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type. — Bob Dylan

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't understand it, though. You didn't need me there before."
I turned to her, my finger touching her cheek. She clearly had no idea how deep my feelings ran. "I didn't know you before. When you're not there, I can't concentrate. I'm wondering where you are, what you're doing ... if you're there and I can see you, I can focus. I know it's crazy, but that's how it is. — Jamie McGuire

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H.L. Mencken

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything? — Sabaa Tahir

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end. — Swami Vivekananda

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. — Gary Moore

One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal of the universe ... Each of them had an individuality of his own, a will of his own, a hope and a heart's desire; each was full of self-confidence, of self-importance, and a sense of dignity. And trusting and strong in faith he had gone about his business, the while a black shadow hung over him, and a horrid Fate in his pathway. Now suddenly it had swooped upon him, and had seized him by the leg. Relentless, remorseless, all his protests, his screams were nothing to it. It did its cruel will with him, as if his wishes, his feelings, had simply no existence at all; it cut his throat and watched him gasp out his life. — Upton Sinclair

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects
with their Christianity latent. — C.S. Lewis

Love was certainly not safe - not ever. — John Irving