Pieper Porch Quotes & Sayings

I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself. — Jim Shepard

Or some flat-bellied scow out of Aegypt, treasure-laden? — Mark Lawrence

That the Beast was a person, Bryony did not even question, but then, she believed on some level that Fumblefoot was a person, and Blackie the goat, and the neighbor's large and grumpy tomcat. It was not that she was sentimental about animals. Chickens, for example, were not people. You looked into a chicken's eyes and you saw the back of their skulls. — T. Kingfisher

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. — Pablo Picasso

I've known several men who believe women are only interested in relationships for money and comfort, and they aren't capable of really loving. And I've known women who insist men only want sex and don't know how to love. White people used to insist that blacks weren't capable of 'noble' emotions, that they were little more than animals. The same was said about Jews, Native Americans, you name it. It's an ancient argument. People keep dredging it up, trying to prove to themselves that people they don't understand are alien and don't warrant being treated well. And it is always - always - wrong. Despite our differences, all people are basically built from the same template. We are all equally admirable and equally flawed. — Jamie Fessenden

To be wrong is part of being alive. Just don't do it too often. — Will Leamon

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall. — Elvis Presley

You have never kissed me. Patted me, hugged me, but you've never kissed me."
"Oh, Rosie, Rosie." His face looked on the point of laughter, then his lips fell gently on hers and he held the kiss for some time. Now, pressing her face from him, he said "That's merely an introduction. When your cheek is better I'll do it properly. — Catherine Cookson

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general — Maureen Johnson Name Of The Star

They should be working, and there isn't enough work. — Siobhan Davies

Ibn Taymiyyah was a worrying figure to the establishment. His return to the fundamentals of the Quran and sunnah and his denial of much of the rich spirituality and philosophy of Islam may have been reactionary, but it was also revolutionary. He outraged the conservative ulama, who clung to the textbook answers, and criticized the Mamluk government of Syria for practices which contravened Islamic law as he understood it. — Karen Armstrong

The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them. — Giulio Andreotti

my heart when I
stared at you
beat irregularly
and jagged — Lori Jenessa Nelson