Pelias Life Quotes & Sayings

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. — Octave Mirbeau

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision. — Frederick Lenz

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still. — Sanjida Kay

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. — Belinda Jeffrey

I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis, with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes, and was ready in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered.
'Good morning, madam, said Holmes, cheerily. 'My name is Sherlock Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — Edward O. Wilson

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. — Michael Gove

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote

Forever and a day. — Gayle Forman

'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts. — Bonnie Langford

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs. — Tom Robbins

Love can't be taken back once it's given — Jodi Lynn Anderson

People bear loneliness every day. They think they won't be able to, that they won't survive, but somehow one second slips into another, becomes an hour, a day, a week, and they are still living. They are still alone, even in the middle of a crowd of people. Even with a partner, a child. — Laura Barnett

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. — Thomas Jefferson