Pleissner Quotes & Sayings

If you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins. — Barbara Kingsolver

There are secrets in all families, you know. — Jane Austen

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death. — Irvin D. Yalom

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes

The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world. — Susanna Clarke

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. — Joe Abercrombie

The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times. — Lisa Loeb

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource. — Mason Cooley

Experience what's happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don't have to invent an environment: it already exists. — T. J. Jagodowski

There's very little reason in politics these days. — Cate Blanchett

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted. — Henry B. Eyring