Perspicacia Para Quotes & Sayings

I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control. — Catherine Ponder

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them. — John Quincy Adams

I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64) — Laurie Halse Anderson

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall. — Stephen Covey

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd. — Kenneth A. Bruffee

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney