Portolano Leather Quotes & Sayings

Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying. — George Orwell

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots. — Paula Hawkins

Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face. — Loudon Wainwright III

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. — Robert M. Pirsig

The only books I recognize as mine are those I must still write. — Italo Calvino

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. — Enoch Powell

I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and
evil in the universe. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story. — Janna Levin

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom. — Abraham Kuyper

Where are my sensations? They have melted into ... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations? — Emile M. Cioran

Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others. — Thea Harris

If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful. — Nhat Hanh

The enemy is always in the mind. — William Goldman