Preisner Pewter Quotes & Sayings

While most of us wouldn't write ourselves a nasty letter, read it, and then feel offended, this is precisely what we do with regard to our thinking. We — Richard Carlson

Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations. — Orhan Pamuk

Quote from "A la bulgaro":
"So long time has passed since those days, and since that story, which is still vivid in my memory, and even more vivid than all the rest. Some times I stay alone in my work - room here, in my father's old mansion in Pasadena, and I look through the old, yellow pages again and again. Then I go back to the north part which is furnished in my style, with many colored Bulgarian carpets and blankets (special kind of Bulgarian blankets with long fur), I make my coffee in a cooper coffee - pot, which has been brought from there, and my thoughts wonder to those absurd memories of mine ...
Very often some friends ask me - what is that unusual memories of yours? I can't explain to them, better say I don't want to, and I always avoid the answer by saying - a la Bulgaro - in a Bulgarian way ... "Oh, yes, yes" ... — Alexandar Tomov

The opinions of others cannot damage you. — Veronica Roth

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. — Georg Buchner

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap. — Laura Benanti

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate. — Peter Lynch

And what she does not know, what nobody else knows but you, is that I have a special place where I go to be with her; my first, my only love. — Anne Rouen

Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous. — Neal Stephenson

James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance. — Laini Taylor

As the moon rose, I saw the light illuminate an ancient quote from the Ano Classics, carved into one of the broken lintels: 'All life is an experiment. — Ken Liu

What use was war without also love? — Saul Bellow