Porong Wei Quotes & Sayings

We have to wonder what this might suggest about the relationship between the public realm and private lives in our settlement.
Some have proposed that we need to do more in encouraging individual interests and pursuits, even if they don't appear terribly useful or practical, to bolster and deepen those inner reserves that "make" a person into who she is, and how, by extension, she identifies and values herself. Other, more conservative, voices balk at this, countering that we need, in fact, to strengthen the bonds of the commune, so that to end one's own life would be tantamount to a grievous assault on us all ... But if we calm ourselves and open our eyes and step back far enough, we have to admit that our society, if not fundamentally unwell, has been profoundly wounded. — Chang-rae Lee

May God grant you the anointing of the Holy Ghost. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When life hands me lemons I...throw them back and demand JASPER HALE — A.R. Arias

Consciousness is basic while thoughts are supreme. Speeches are nothing but the expression of thoughts and feelings. If there is no consciousness, nothing else could be there. At the same time, all forms of consciousness will not give the abilities to think and express thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. — Daniel D. Palmer

Rose said: 'Some people would be needing their spare glasses, or that blue cardigan. You need a book. Of course.'
'A deficiency?'said Charlotte meekly.
'Not at all. The need defines you, that's all. — Penelope Lively

It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth. — Nell Zink

By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move. — Robert Barry

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg

There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn't want you enough to keep you, but who doesn't love you enough to let you go. — Megan Hart

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. — Arthur Symons

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell. — Patricia Hampl

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. — Jean De La Bruyere

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. — Neal Shusterman

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it. — Kurt Fuller