Perilless Quotes & Sayings

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. — Peter J. Carroll

A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes. — George Karl

Fife ... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny. — James Jones

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. — Charles MacArthur

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep. — Bear Bryant

I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all. — William James

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken. — Ben Shahn

Do things that make you make the most of the time you have here in this world. — Moonish Sood

And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline. — Donald S. Whitney

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics. — John C. Danforth

I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem
To mock me now, all night, all night, and
Have I strayed among the cliffs here
They say, some day I'll fall
Down through the sea-bit fissures, and no more
Know the warm cloak of sun, or bathe
The dew across my tired eyes to comfort them.
They try to keep me hid within four walls.
I will not stay! — Ezra Pound

In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations ... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness. — Paul Brand

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations — Kevin Carson