Pouncey Quotes & Sayings

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to. — Peter R. Pouncey

If you try to walk in my shoes, you'll end up in a bookstore. — Anonymous

I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind. — Peter R. Pouncey

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. — Novalis

Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back. — Peter R. Pouncey

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance. — Al-Ghazali

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ? — Peter Pouncey

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work. — Wendell Berry

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him. — Peter R. Pouncey

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years. — Daniel Boulud

Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. — Gail Sheehy

No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice. — Marisa De Los Santos

We all do things we're not particularly proud of, because in the short term they make us feel the smallest bit better. Don't we? — Maggie Pouncey

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere. — Peter R. Pouncey