Por Ciento Quotes & Sayings

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. — Edward Gibbon

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era — Jocelyn Gibb

You've got to find it (the path to wealth) on your own ... No one else can find it for you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
There is a moment's pause.
If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow. — Ikkyu

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher

A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once. — Richard Laymon

In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color. — Paul Bowles

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months
unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face. — D.H. Lawrence