Pelisson Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

If we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing — John Calvin

Japanese gardeners, over many centuries, have learned to do things to trees, to clip their roots or trim their branches, to limit their supply of water, air, or sun, so that they live, and for a long time, but only in tiny, shrunken, twisted shapes. Such trees may please us, or they may not. But what could they tell us about the nature of trees? If a tree can be deformed and shrunk, is this, then, its nature? The nature of these trees, given enough of the sun, air, water, soil, and food they need, is to grow like trees, tall and straight. People can be more easily deformed, and worse deformed, even than trees - and more than trees, they feel it, it hurts. But — John Holt

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present. — Paul Palnik

More people have died at the end of a loaded gun than from an empty stomach. — Tahereh Mafi

The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values. — Wendell Berry

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground. — Adam Beach

The discordant principals' duet is like the nocturnal emission of a cancerous horse tethered in its dolorous slumber to a barbed aluminum fence during an electrical storm. — Sophie McManus

Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. — Ursula K. Le Guin

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it. — Ingmar Bergman