Pericolonic Quotes & Sayings

Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. — Leo Tolstoy

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it unconsciously. — Jostein Gaarder

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. — Robert Grudin

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional. — Maria Popova

The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment. — Edgar Cayce

That's what everybody wants to do when they love like that. They want to get married, they want to kiss and hug and carry on and have babies all the time. — Harper Lee

Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights ... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision. — Barbara Madsen