Peregrinatio Quotes & Sayings

The chemicals were both highly flammable and highly toxic, and more than one inexpert bust had ended in conflagration. — Robin Wasserman

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. — Barry Unsworth

Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood — Thomas C. Oden

Don't be amazed. There is nothing strange about eight white men being alone and therefore helpless. — Gordon MacCreagh

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. — J.R. Ward

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing. — George W. S. Trow

Look important. It helps you think important. How you look on the outside has a lot to do with how you feel on the inside. — David J. Schwartz

Lorenzo thinking that he truly liked Jesse, always had. — Richard Price

How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction of conversation, society, study, even health and the common beauties of nature, but above all the peaceful reflection on one's own conduct: What comparison, I say, between these, and the feverish, empty amusements of luxury and expense? These natural pleasures, indeed, are really without price; both because they are below all price in their attainment, an above it in their enjoyment. — David Hume

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful. — J.G. Ballard

I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would. — Joseph B. Wirthlin