Pheng Lao Quotes & Sayings

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). — Annie Dillard

If the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, you should let them do it. — Veronica Roth

I know I'm old school, but I believe that pain can be the most important tool in a person's life. It forces a person to pay attention to something that needs to be changed. I worry that drugs like sleeping pills mask pain just enough that the real root of the problem gets buried, deeper and deeper. A problem - even something like grief - just doesn't go away until it's dealt with. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden. — Michael Jackson

Axl Rose is the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs in human form. — Chuck Klosterman

The truly contented man works energetically and faithfully, and accepts all results with an untroubled spirit. December Second. THERE are three things with which a man should be content: With whatever happens; with his friendships and possessions; and with his pure thoughts. Contented with whatever happens, he will escape grief; with his friendships and possessions, he will avoid anxiety and wretchedness; and with his pure thoughts, he will never go back to suffer and grovel in impurities. There are three with which a man should not be content: With his opinions; with his character; and with his spiritual condition. Not content with his opinions, he will continually increase in intelligence; not content with his character, he will ceaselessly grow in strength and virtue; and not content with his spiritual condition, he will, every day, enter into a larger wisdom and a fuller blessedness. Results exactly correspond with efforts. — James Allen

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important. — Rod Serling

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up. — Fred Thompson

Money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed. — Helen McCloy