Perplejo In English Quotes & Sayings

'Can you tell me,' Willim said, the heat in his face unwilling to subside, 'just when I lost my mind? Was it recent, or have I always been an idiot?' — L.S. Baird

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of. — Karen Marie Moning

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus

The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you. — Luke The Evangelist

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy. — J.K. Rowling

Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves. — Graham Greene

What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple. — Elsa Peretti

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live. — Malcolm Forbes

You've been all black and white, like Kansas. It's time to get back to Oz. Enjoy the colors. — Kaje Harper

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. — Don DeLillo

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. — G.K. Chesterton

The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy. — Sigrid Undset