Peter Quince Quotes & Sayings

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. — Alistair Darling

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life. — Vandana Shiva

Bringing Leviathan under control will be the heart of global politics because of a confluence of three forces: failure, competition, and opportunity. The West has to change because it is going broke. The emerging world needs to reform to keep forging ahead. There is a global contest, but one based on promise as much as fear: Government can be done better. — John Micklethwait

Told you what? Alec's hand slid up Jace's arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand, red-faced, while Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.
-pg.139- — Cassandra Clare

The brain abhors discrepancies. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see. — Joseph Campbell

QUINCE
Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.
FLUTE
Here, Peter Quince.
QUINCE
Flute, you must take Thisby on you.
FLUTE
What is Thisby? a wandering knight?
QUINCE
It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
FLUTE
Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming. — William Shakespeare

Just the way he said her name undid her, loosened something tight and knotted underneath her rib cage, making her breathless. — Cassandra Clare

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly. — Toks Olagundoye

Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer. — John Hall

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. — Henri Bergson

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. — Octave Feuillet

Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God's kind of love. — Elizabeth George

The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget. — Viet Thanh Nguyen