Perchance Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions 'lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular. — John Stuart Mill

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi

Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time. — Thea Harrison

I wish the world was filled with people like you, do you know that? — Cecelia Ahern

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember. — Dinaw Mengestu

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see. — Walker Percy

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making. — Zubin Mehta

I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid. — Max Brooks

Working homicide for so many years, Bosch could not be surprised anymore by the horrors people inflicted on each other. But the horrors people saved for themselves were a different story. — Michael Connelly

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go. — Quincy Jones

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. — Randall Jarrell