Pettifleur Quotes & Sayings

There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not. — Michael Josephson

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. — Samuel Johnson

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix. — Richard Brookhiser

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed. — Jef Mallett

Stay worry-free. Show love and you get love. — Raheem Devaughn

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.
It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents. — China Mieville

Charity Jones loved a good disaster movie as much as the next person - she would simply prefer the disaster in question not be about her life. — Susan Mallery

A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important. — Wislawa Szymborska

My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly. — Francois Hollande

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst. — Margaret Mead

I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church. — Jessica Hahn

You get caught up in your chaos, you don't realize just how much you're dragging everyone along with you. — Kristen Ashley

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared ... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter! — Meinos Kaen

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz Von Foerster