Peskimo Quotes & Sayings

There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance. Put another way, too much anxious opening of the oven door and the cake falls instead of rising. So it is with us. If we are always selfishly taking our temperature to see if we are happy, we will not be. — Neal A. Maxwell

Trout trudged onward, a stranger in a strange land. His pilgrimage was rewarded with new wisdom, which would never have been his had he remained in his basement in Cohoes. He learned the answer to a question many human beings were asking themselves so frantically: What's blocking the traffic on the westbound barrel of the Midland City stretch of the Interstate? — Kurt Vonnegut

The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place. — Arundhati Roy

The boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all."
"No," she admitted. "Those who ask much are more likely disappointed. We should all be as simple as the goose. — Gregory Maguire

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ... — Lauren Aquilina

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. — Perry Christie

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. — Chuck Palahniuk

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. — Dolly Parton

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. — Etgar Keret

No more talk. I'm sick of people talking. Train. — Masaaki Hatsumi

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you. — Janis Joplin

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. — Rod Stewart

My Jenn. Not Billy's Jenn. Mine. — Penny Reid