Perinthians Quotes & Sayings

It was well said - by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think - that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable. — Christopher Hitchens

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? — George Steiner

Don't," Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. "You try to hurt her again and I'll pull your arm off. — Rachel Caine

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. — Shia Labeouf

I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again — Megan Whalen Turner

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember. — Masiela Lusha

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. — Andy Taylor

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter. — Katrina Kaif

And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'
They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.
'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.
'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible. — Rudyard Kipling

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege. — Yasser Arafat

If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually. — Dave Gahan

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us. — David Seamands