Peroutka Law Quotes & Sayings

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me. — Philip Kerr

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. — Barbara Kingsolver

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. — John Updike

Yes, very good," sang Governor Evrard, as if he had successfully explained that two and two made four. — Ash Gray

Of course the *bleep* is a human being too. None of us has ever doubted it. But a flea is also an animal. But not a very pleasant one. Since a flea is not a pleasant animal, we have no duty to protect and defend it, to take care of it so that it can bite and torment and torture us. Rather, we make it harmless. It is the same with the *bleep*. — Unknown

Sarah turned on her, and shook her head. "You may keep them. And if it is possible with so small a sum of money, I suggest you purchase some instrument of torture. I am sure Mrs. Fairly will be pleased to help you use it upon all those wretched enough to come under your power. — John Fowles

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after. — Theodore Roosevelt

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything. — Thomas Merton

Americans entrust their security to a class of military professionals who see themselves in many respects as culturally and politically set apart from the rest of society.53 — Andrew J. Bacevich

The Four Ideas: the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom. The ensuing effect is the idea of particles - the innumerable atoms, pair a or anu. These four - the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom - are therefore one and the same, and substantially nothing but mere ideas. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start. — Ruta Sepetys