Pendor Companions Quotes & Sayings

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it well; a significant degree of their sense of personal and group identity derives from it. All this is unexceptionable. But nationalists try to persuade their fellows that the existence of other groups and cultures somehow represents a challenge, and sometimes a threat, to what the natives of the home culture value. (From: Toward the Light of Liberty) — A.C. Grayling

Macke went to the door. He looked at the three women: the maid, the wife, and the daughter. "All this trouble," he said, "for the sake of an eight-year-old moron. I will never understand you people. — Ken Follett

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery. — Rajneesh

People just want to have access to all of the world's music. — Daniel Ek

The act of love, for instance, is a confession. — Albert Camus

aplomb. Sometimes the sheer bravado of her actions astonished — Debbie Macomber

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them. — Connie Willis

I bet women bend right over this desk for you," I lean forward and place my hands on the desk and drop one shoulder seductively. "I bet they're all, 'Oh, Sawyer, it's so big. I don't think it's gonna fit.' Newsflash for you. They're lying. It always fits. — Jana Aston

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down. — Tommy Tenney

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. — Warren Buffett

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself. — Natalie Wood

Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust. — Simone Elkeles

He makes no friend who never made a foe. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter — Baruch Spinoza

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche