Pernickity Quotes & Sayings

They'd entered a clearing. A wide, green meadow in the middle of the forest. The entire space was carpeted with bluebells. Thousands upon thousands of sweetly curving green stalks, their tips heavy with sprays of blue-violet blossoms. The sunlight shone from above and slanted through the trees, catching the blooms at different angles. The whole scene splendid.
It was magical. — Tessa Dare

All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under. — Henny Youngman

No ruler can make a people good. — George R R Martin

Virtue never has been as respectable as money. — Mark Twain

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit. — Kristin Armstrong

Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one. — Harold Bloom

But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me — Deirdre Riordan Hall

The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature. — Toba Beta

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down. — Shane Claiborne

Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest. — Malcolm Gladwell

It is better to be nonjudgmental.
Pure love is always unconditional. — Debasish Mridha

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard. — Confucius

I could hang with horses all day. — Leona Lewis

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it. — Max Eastman

Thus, in early 2010, like many teachers across the nation, I was encouraged to embrace the new standards even though they were not yet finished, and I was told that the tests associated with these unfinished standards were going to be difficult ("rigorous"), even though the tests could not possibly exist yet if the standards themselves were not even complete. — Mercedes K. Schneider