Petacchie Quotes & Sayings

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life. — Anne Carson

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment. — John Stott

I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings. — Kourtney Kardashian

In true Bastien form - and keeping in mind that he's only seven at the time - he yanks off his helmet, throws his backpack down, and lies on the ground, using the helmet for a pillow, and says to them, and I quote verbatim, 'Later, bitches. I'm done for the day. Y'all can carry me home or call for a lift. Either way, I ain't moving from here. My ass is too precious for this abuse. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You never get over the fear of writing. — Maya Angelou

Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality. — Toni Braxton

It seems that rather than abandon their worldview, many young people are abandoning their lives altogether. I am disturbed to see the number of suicides and suicide attempts by those between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five. Many of their suicide notes report they had lost meaning, purpose and a sense that life held any value.

This is no longer just about philosophy. This is about the very real lives we are all trying to make sense of here on Earth. — Jon Morrison

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public? — Frederick Buechner

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions. — Lord Acton

Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught. — Philip Kerr

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned. — Marjane Satrapi

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. — George Herbert