Porporee Quotes & Sayings

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas. — Errollyn Wallen

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier — Muhammad Ali

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations. — Claude Bernard

[Toby] reflected that being cruel sometimes makes you rich and powerful, but it always makes you ugly. — Timothee De Fombelle

Unaccustomed sense of peace did not depend on ... 'the whim of any fallible creature, or ... economic security, or the weather. I don't know where it comes from. Jung states that such serenity is always a miracle ... I am so glad that the therapists of my maturity and the saints of my childhood agree on one thing. — Louise Bogan

So now we are young still but a better sort of young. — Penelope Lively

But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It's a grand thing to have a hare for a friend. — Elizabeth Goudge

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own. — Charles Lamb

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kato Lomb

Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain. — Joseph Heller

Like every other mother on the planet, from the moment my first baby entered the house, I stopped getting real sleep. Motherhood means I'm always a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times. One eye open. So — Shonda Rhimes

Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now! — William Makepeace Thackeray

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it. — James Marsden

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population. — John O. Brennan