Pesoas Quotes & Sayings

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast. — George Carlin

Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.] — George Herbert

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me. — Rick Riordan

I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it. — Henry Paulson

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in. — Vir Das

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. — Pablo Picasso

A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction. — Michael Kumhof

It's much easier to work with an unknown. — Taylor Hackford

A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It was only that I'd suffered like that, hour after hour, that I'd gone into the circle of hell and come back out. They hadn't been in the circle of hell. And I felt quiet all over. In this common occurrence, I understood the meaning of utter loneliness. — Anne Rice

Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own! — J.D. Salinger

Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all. — Danny Meyer