Permitium Dashboard Quotes & Sayings

Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April. — John Banville

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration. — Yoshida Kenko

We do emphasize the matter of working with God and not working for God by our own strength. Yes, we should work with God and even by God. But — Witness Lee

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. — Ernest Hemingway,

By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word,
Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord! — Geoffrey Chaucer

You'll have to be grateful for what we can do instead of angry about what we can't. — Eric Walters

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years. — Noah Feldman

In unison, we stepped away from the group, sharing a secret little smile. Fuck, this girl makes me feel unhinged. — Christina Lauren

Why would a farmer lock the doors of his turkey farm? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Marshal Beria wasn't the type to sit and chat about nothing. Life was too short for that (and besides he was socially incompetent). — Jonas Jonasson

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals. — Jason Statham

My love is building a building
around you,a frail slippery
house,a strong fragile house
(beginning at the singular beginning
of your smile)a skilful uncouth
prison, a precise clumsy
prison(building thatandthis into Thus,
Around the reckless magic of your mouth)
my love is building a magic, a discrete
tower of magic and(as i guess)
when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall
crumble the mouth-flower fleet
He'll not my tower,
laborious, casual
where the surrounded smile
hangs
breathless — E. E. Cummings

Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book. — Cullen Bunn

Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry. — Naveen Jain

The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that. — Michael Irvin