Platouri Quotes & Sayings

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers. — Fanny Kemble

We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries ... for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. — Henry David Thoreau

Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts. — C. K. Williams

[T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being. — Ludwig Feuerbach

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left. — Cormac McCarthy

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops. — Friedrich Paulus

Let us try what love will do. — William Penn

I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people. — Culbert Olson

Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys. — Jeffrey Kluger

Haters call me 'gay,' but their girlfriends want me more than them. — Justin Bieber

As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces. — Tipper Gore

When you are feeling stressed, and you keep going over and over the same problem in your mind, with no solution, take action. Do anything to remove your energy from the issue. You will find that when you are proactive, your mind will become more clear, solutions will arise, and you will feel more self-confident. Free yourself from feeling like a victim and become victorious instead! — Jenni Young

...if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto. — Tom Robbins