Perpetuellement Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either. — David Berkowitz

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship. — Rob Sheffield

He said very little, but his eyes were eloquent; the clutch of his arms was eloquent. He was the playground of unspeakable emotions. These, you know, were real Magics. — H.G.Wells

But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered. I didn't want to die. Even if it meant becoming something I loathed, my nature was, first and always, to survive. — Julie Kagawa

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn. — Charlotte Lamb

Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. "Yes ... and" rather than "No ... but." "The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way. This is also true of the person who is deceptive or doing things wrong: he always tries to justify himself. A person who is bright in regard to his spiritual life is humble. He accepts what others tell him - criticism, ideas - and he works with them. — Michael Lewis

Even at such a tender age, I knew that life is lived in leftovers, account ledgers, and timetables rather than in the Platonic sphere of perfect theory. I couldn't float sylphlike around Love Hall in the flowing robes of indeterminacy for the rest of my life, however much I wished there to be no change. I had to accept my responsibilities and, at least in the eyes of the world and at least for the time being, nail my colors to a mast. Unless I wished to appear a strange wonder for the rest of time, caked in circus makeup covering the truth inches beneath, the mast would be male. — Wesley Stace

People do not make wars; governments do. — Ronald Reagan

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want. — Albert Einstein

A sense of place is very important in writing. — William Lashner

In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right to — Kay Ryan

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem. — Garrison Keillor

One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price. — Patricia McConnell

I just think this whole thing about not wearing anything twice, I just don't understand it. I think things should be worn. You should bond with your clothing. It should be yours. — Alexandra Kotur

There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise. — Catherynne M Valente