Penelope Pitstop Quotes & Sayings

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always. — Douglas MacArthur

Time rolls his ceaseless course. — Walter Scott

There are places, just as there are people and objects ... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery. — Paul Nash

He crushes his lips to mine. My face is already wet from tears, but the kiss isn't sweet and romantic. At that moment, it feels like a kiss of life or death. It is carnal and harsh. I will never forget this kiss. — Lauren Helms

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences. — Doris Salcedo

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence? — Sri Aurobindo

The fact that each being has its own accordant suffering means that no matter who we are, whether we have a prominent place or the humblest place in society, we all experience suffering. Reflect on all of the ordinary suffering that each and every living being experiences. Many of us face the unbearable suffering of the death of a child. All of us will experience being separated from our parents, either by emotional estrangement or by death. If we are married or in a long-term relationship, that relationship will either break up or end with the death of one of the partners. Many of us have families that do not behave like families due to alcoholism or other kinds of addictions, and we grow up lacking stability and intimacy. Even if we do have a more stable family life, we will still experience the suffering of disagreements, arguing, and fighting. — Anyen Rinpoche

The things in this world which are thoroughly insignificant are precisely the things which are singularly rare. — G.K. Chesterton

Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God. — John Cassian

I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful. — Stacie Evans

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire. — Thomas Blood

The truth about forever is that it never gets any closer or farther away. — Maximus Freeman

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling. — Septima Poinsette Clark

Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action. — Nathaniel Fick