Perpetuam Rei Quotes & Sayings

One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good. — Lesley Nicol

A lack of this complete submission to the will of God, and a failure to realize that our salvation can only be worked out by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit forming the very life of Christ within the redeemed heart, has placed the Christian church today in the same apostasy that characterized the Jewish nation. — William Law

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember. — Charles Caleb Colton

When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence. — Koji Suzuki

Ahh, you're a man used to getting his own way."
"Always," he said in a husky growl. — Maya Banks

You must dream your life with great care.
Instead of living it as merely an amusement. — Arthur Cravan

I got Oedipus off the incest charge
technicality, of course
he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde

Never allow two people to do a job which one could do. George Washington observed, 'Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. — David Ogilvy

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. — Ambrose Bierce

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth. — John Playfair

I've been curious ever since I was a little kid. — Herbie Hancock

A normal woman, indeed, no more believes in democracy in the nation than she believes in democracy at her own fireside; she knows that there must be a class to order and a class to obey, and that the two can never coalesce. Nor is she, susceptible to the stock sentimentalities upon which the whole democratic process is based. This was shown very dramatically in them United States at the national election of 1920, in which the late Woodrow Wilson was brought down to colossal and ignominious defeat - The first general election in which all American women could vote. All the sentimentality of the situation was on the side of Wilson, and yet fully three-fourths of the newly-enfranchised women voters voted against him. — H.L. Mencken

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey