Pelorovis Quotes & Sayings

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it. — Anton Chekhov

In battle though his hands grow clever, and you'd think him whole, until the din fades, the dying fall, and Maical wanders the fields weeping. — Mark Lawrence

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. — George Santayana

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script. — Johnny Crawford

I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them. — Heidi Murkoff

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world. — Robert Anderson

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike. — Alex Faickney Osborn

The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she'd snap and crack the world in two. — Patrick Rothfuss

I became a new being, and the subject of my own admiration. I was a traveler! A word never had tasted so good in my mouth before. I had an exultant sense of being bound for mysterious lands and distant climes which I never have felt in so uplifting a degree since. I was in such a glorified condition that all ignoble feelings departed out of me, and I was able to look down and pity the untraveled with a compassion that had hardly a trace of contempt in it. — Mark Twain

Sewn together patterns,
like many clashing moods,
She wears what
No others dare — Maddy Kobar

Maugham's success, in fact, lies a good deal less in what he positively does than in what he discreetly leaves undone. He gets the colors of life into his Charles Strickland, not by playing a powerful beam of light upon him, but by leaving him a bit out of focus
by constantly insisting, in the midst of every discussion of him, upon his pervasive mystery
in brief, by craftily making him appear, not as a commonplace, simple and completely understandable man, but as the half comprehended enigma that every genuine man of genius seems to all of us when we meet him in real life. — H.L. Mencken

screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither? — I. W. Gregorio

Containing several hundred languages, among them several world languages, the Indo-European language family is the language family with the most speakers world-wide. — Soren Eberhardt