Pilea Quotes & Sayings

A Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern king will fall into misfortunes,' and 'one who stops his ears so as not to hear the weak, shall himself cry, and there shall be none to hear him' (Prov. 13:17; 21:13). — John Cassian

I one time tripped on that shit with Cassius for a week on the Thermic." She catches my look. "Well, it was before I met you. And have you ever seen him with his shirt off? Don't tell Sevro, by the way. — Pierce Brown

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them. — Bryant McGill

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up. — Nick Earls

Then I know that in my dreams I can never capture the same sun-glow, and that the air that I breathe can never, there, flow as freshly in my cells, and I can never see so sharply or so far; and I believe once more that what is true can be seen by everyone, everyone. — Leena Krohn

If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning. — Alfred Delp

This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
So is all conditioned existence to be seen. — Gautama Buddha

You have to take this with you too," she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. "My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you're leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her. — Zack Love

These feelings are too fierce to last. They can only burn, making us ash and char. — Mark Lawrence

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal! — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. — Mickey Kaus