Perilious Quotes & Sayings

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund. — Alex Berenson

Life is but a day:
A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way
From a tree's summit — John Keats

Astrologers that future fates foreshow. — Alexander Pope

This is how one ought to see," I repeated yet again. And I might have added, "These are the sort of things one ought to look at." Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God. — Aldous Huxley

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. — Dan Abrams

It was the beginning of the end. — Victor Hugo

I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant
indeed something only hoi polloi would say. — Anne Fadiman

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other. — George Trumbull Ladd

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute. — Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader. — Jason Aaron

I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie. — Anushka Sharma

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal — Martin Amis

Even if you give a woman the world, don't be complacent; someone may come along and give her the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign? — David Mitchell