Poadept Quotes & Sayings

Colour is the skin of the world, — Sonia Delaunay

He gave the tiniest of smiles and it made me want to think of ways to see it more often. — Christina Garner

I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything! — Gretchen Carlson

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy. — J.D. Roth

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government. — Amity Shlaes

I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead. — James E. Lovelock

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government. — George Will

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever. — Yasmin Mogahed

The best prize life has to offer is not a chance to work hard and be something in the community. It is the perfume of God that resides within you. — Enock Maregesi

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. — Robert Browning

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste. — Isabella Bird

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months. — Joe Haldeman