Pendolo Point Quotes & Sayings

Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course - it was not round and shiny - but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc. — Terry Pratchett

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil. — Kathy McClary

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. — Ben Okri

When you know someone is keeping secrets from you it makes you feel like an idiot, and no one likes feeling like an idiot. Mum — Fredrik Backman

I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met. — Jimmy Carter

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye. — Damon Galgut

If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites. — David Horsey

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. — Andrew Solomon

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up. — Beatrix Potter

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose — Jon Bon Jovi

Love is warmer than summer. — Matshona Dhliwayo

She smoked like wet underwear on fire, swore like a slow hockey goalie, caroused like a cheerleader on spring break in Cancun, and experienced the people she chose to experience fully, men or women. — Dennis Vickers

Life is about being optimistic and living life in despair is not the last resort of every problem — Saleemdurrani

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror. — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do."
"A rule?"
"If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time. — Haruki Murakami