Persley Dawson Quotes & Sayings

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it. — Swami Vivekananda

The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through. — Octavia E. Butler

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face? — P. J. O'Rourke

Satan has many helpers. — Ellen G. White

I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business. — C.N. Williamson

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen. — Robert Hilburn

You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high. — Billy Beane

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer. — Dalai Lama

I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid. — Ahmed Best

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in — Murray Walker

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting. — Kurt Braunohler

The first requisite for immortality is death. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It is on our bodies that the law must go to work, not only on our minds. Reason must govern in collusion with the senses it subdues, rather as an astute sovereign rules in a way that allows each citizen to feel that he is doing no more than obeying the diktats of his own desires. — Terry Eagleton

Breathing her calms Caleb; she is is own oxygen. — Jodi Picoult