Pelee Island Quotes & Sayings

thoroughly supplanted Mr. Knightley, and — Jane Austen

Shoes, unlike feet, are not something you're born with. So you can choose what you want. At first be guided in your choice by people with experience, later by your own experience. Before long you will become so accustomed to your shoes that every nail will be like a finger to feel out the rock and cling to it. They will become a sensitive and dependable instrument, like a part of yourself. And yet, you're not born with them; when they're worn out, you'll throw them away and still remain what you are. — Rene Daumal

My writing has a lot of surprising twists. — Brent Weeks

Good followers do not become good leaders. — Laurence J. Peter

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. — Christopher Eccleston

We're what we repeatedly do. — Aristotle.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much. — Frank Herbert

Today, approximately 9 of 10 beers consumed around the globe are lagers. — Oliver, Garrett

Constraining business is absolutely wrong. — Sergey Galitsky

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job. — Ray Bradbury

I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job. — John Kasich

There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we're got on damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation. — Ray Bradbury

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile. — Alice McDermott