Perilhou Quotes & Sayings

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean). — Douglas Hofstadter

I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow. — Thomas Ferguson

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. — Kevin O'Leary

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity. — Sharon Salzberg

Of the things I want my daughters to know the greatest of these is love. — Elin Hilderbrand

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is. — Richard Gere

our childhood is over now, Marshal. Mankind can survive very well without an intimate study of your susceptibilities but not, unfortunately, without your other functions and talents. Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone? — Dorothy Dunnett

We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else. — Cheryl Strayed

Simple is never that simple. — Philip Roth

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. — Patrick Mendis

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public. — Robert McNamara

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place. — Graeme Base

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. — Wendell Phillips

I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. — George McGovern