Perihal In English Quotes & Sayings

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight. — John Cusack

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. — E. Lockhart

I am not qualified to deal with this. Why does everyone I meet seem to have mental problems?
Ah ... but did they have mental problems before meeting you? Who's the common denominator here, Dan?
I do not have mental problems! I say to the voice in my head, perfectly aware how damning it would sound were I to say it aloud. — Eoin Colfer

Servants don't fill up their time with other pursuits that could limit their availability. — Rick Warren

Happiness too is inevitable. — Albert Camus

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you! — Steve Maraboli

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash. — John Fowles

Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else. — Henry Cloud

Technological civilization ... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system — Charles A. Beard

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. — Barbara Castle