Peppi Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing.
We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn't complete yet. — M.F. Moonzajer

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined. — Mo Udall

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. — Frank Carlucci

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary. — Simon Sinek

Of course, you're always a cynic before you fall in love yourself... — Holly Bourne

Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend. — Svetlana Chmakova

I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books. — Seanan McGuire

That was something. As opposed to nothing. — Kevin Ayers

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom. — Andre Gide

I don't want to leave. — Svetlana Chmakova

My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake?

I think you're a good person. — Svetlana Chmakova

She would have asked Noah to confirm this, but he was notoriously disinterested in the details of his afterlife. (Once, Gansey had tersely asked, "Don't you care how it is that you're still here?" and Noah had answered with remarkable acumen, "Do you care how your kidneys work?") — Maggie Stiefvater

What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give. — Narayanan Krishnan

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important. — Pina Bausch

Success doesn't know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not. — Greg Plitt

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal. — James Wolcott

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. — Elizabeth West

Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative. — Stefan Kieszling