Popelera Quotes & Sayings

You can always make something out of nothing. — Simms Taback

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life. — Socrates

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point. — Jim Michaels

If you don't know what you are doing, your works will never make any difference. — M.F. Moonzajer

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home. — Rebecca Stead

There are 5 types of poverty. Money is just one of them. Love, Wisdom, Motivation and Hope are the other four. — Robin Sacredfire

When the Deep Purple falls,
Over sleepy garden walls,
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,
Thru the mist of a memory
You wander back to me,
Breathing my name with a sigh.
In the still of the night,
Once again I hold you tight,
Tho' you're gone, your love lives on
When moonlight beams.
And as long as my heart will beat
Lover, we'll always meet
Here in my Deep Purple dreams. — Rebecca Wells

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers? — Cassandra Clare

We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples. — Sam Kean

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written. — Dan Simmons

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. — Alice McCall

Outright destruction of rebellious ships or habitats - pour encouragez les autres - of course remains an option for the controlling power, but all the usual rules of uprising realpolitik still apply, especially that concerning the peculiar dialectic of dissent which - simply stated - dictates that in all but the most dedicatedly repressive hegemonies, if in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seems often to baffle the military and political mind. — Iain Banks

For I am my mother's daughter, and ... — Mary McLeod Bethune