Perdriel Quotes & Sayings

Some people think the first tools were weapons, but that's all upside down. First of all, people figure out the tools. It's the crutch before the club every time. — Neil Gaiman

If a number's individual digits sum to a number that is divisible by three, then it too is divisible by three. — Amor Towles

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago. — John Ratzenberger

I do not Support : The Holocaust.
Not Even : "The Second Holocaust."
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
November 3, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues. — Annie Dillard

Politics has become so all-possessive of life, that by impertinence it thinks the only philosophy a person can hold is the right or the left. This question puts out all the lights of religion so they can call all the cats gray. It assumes that man lives on a purely horizontal plane, and can move only to the right or the left. Had we eyes less material, we would see that there are two other directions where a man with a soul may look: the vertical directions of "up" or "down. — Fulton J. Sheen

It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener — Dave Burchett

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had
yea, and that among very wise men
to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. — Roger Ascham

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or ... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that. — Neale Donald Walsch

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. — Richard Steele

Lydia was like this all the time. I mean, the more I opened up to her, was a model patient or whatever, the icier she got, correcting pretty much everything out of my mouth and at least half of my silent actions as well. But the thing was that her near-constant admonitions actually made me like her more. I think because witnessing her administration of ten zillion rules and codes of conduct, all of which she applied to her own life, made her seem fragile and weak, in need of the constant protection of all those rules, instead of the opposite, the way I know that she wanted to be seen, the way I'd seen her when I first arrived: powerful and all knowing. — Emily M. Danforth

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27. — Olivier Theyskens

Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else. — Peace Pilgrim