Popori Quotes & Sayings

In our marriage - in every marriage? - no annoyed glance holds only the displeasure of the moment. Each one reflects all the irritated glances he's ever shot at me for all of my transgressions: for lacking discipline, for being brittle and sharp, for overreacting, for swearing all the time, even in front of Hannah, for letting my worst self porcupine out before I retract my quills. Every exasperated look Chris gives me - and there have been plenty - carries the sediment of all the displeasure that has accumulated over the past fifteen years. — Lauren Fox

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success. — Manuela George-Izunwa

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed. — Steven Soderbergh

If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal ... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons ... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons. — Edward Kennedy

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term. — Hillary Clinton

Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market. — Bernard De Mandeville

If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it. — Noam Chomsky

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity. — Ayn Rand

If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously. — Victoria Justice

Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' ... he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange. — Elmore Leonard

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else. — David Whyte

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ... — Constance Fenimore Woolson

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. — Richard Le Gallienne