Persil Reviews Quotes & Sayings

There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter? — C.S. Lewis

I never wanted to play the short game. — Michael Keaton

A life lived outside of the will of the Lord is like trying to climb a waterfall. — Nicole Baart

Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness. — Anthony De Mello

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry. — Isabel Allende

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic. — Eddie Condon

Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. — Stephen King

It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste. — Nicola Yoon

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. — Roopleen

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not. — Randy Bachman

Who are you, what are you doing here, who is Hood, why does he want Julie, and where is Julie's mother?"
"Is that all!" He wiped the red smudge off his lip with the back of his hand.
"Yes. No. Why is the cauldron important, where did it go, how is Morrigan involved, where do you go when you disappear, and why do you keep stealing the maps? Okay, now that's everything. — Ilona Andrews