Personalist Principle Quotes & Sayings

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau

The amount of money I would pay for people to stop fucking up grammar is only slightly lower than the amount I'd give to ensure I never have grammatical errors in the statements I make calling others out on their grammatical errors. — Jenny Lawson

Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin. — Barbara Kingsolver

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself. — Billy Boyd

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. — John F. Kennedy

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting. — John Henry Newman

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. — Albert Pike

When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible. — Andrea Arnold

Sarusawa Pond is a very special place, because the Emperor paid it a formal visit when he heard how one of the Palace Maidens had drowned herself there. 1 Thinking of Hitomaro's marvellous words 'her hair tangled as in sleep', there is really nothing I can add. — Sei Shonagon

It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave. — Neil Peart

Life should be lived to the point of tears — Albert Camus

After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever. — Paul Bowles

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. — Terence McKenna

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility. — Steven Erikson

There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling. — Johnny Hunt