Petrolink Quotes & Sayings

An unrecorded goal is only a wish. — Paul R. Timm

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato

As far as evil goes" - she shrugged one shoulder - "I've spent a dozen years studying the subject and there's one thing I know for sure." Her expression grew distant, breakable somehow. She blinked and seemed to push whatever had distracted her aside. "If you want to know what evil looks like, look in the mirror." She leaned down, flattened her hands on the table once more, and went face-to-face with Wells. "Any one of us is capable of evil, Detective. We all have a line. It's not crossing it that separates us from the Ed Geins and Charles Mansons of the world. — Debra Webb

Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. — David Viaene

He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time. — James Sallis

No one's going to come shopping if the 'for sale' sign isn't on the door. — Eli Easton

If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be! — Lynn Barber

UTOPIA When the train stops, the woman said, you must get on it. But how will I know, the child asked, it is the right train? It will be the right train, said the woman, because it is the right time. A train approached the station; clouds of grayish smoke streamed from the chimney. How terrified I am, the child thinks, clutching the yellow tulips she will give to her grandmother. Her hair has been tightly braided to withstand the journey. Then, without a word, she gets on the train, from which a strange sound comes, not in a language like the one she speaks, something more like a moan or a cry. — Louise Gluck

I have not always been as now:
The fever'd diadem on my brow
I claim'd and won unsurprisingly-
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caeser-this is me?
The heritage of a kindly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly with human kind. — Edgar Allan Poe

I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world. — Hanya Yanagihara

I gave him my best Whatever look. It usually makes guys back off. Actually, it usually makes them run for the hills, but this one just gets closer. — Romily Bernard

Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows. — Thich Nhat Hanh

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. — Tim O'Reilly

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking. — Jerry Seinfeld