Pribula Quotes & Sayings

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them. — Wayne Gretzky

There is no excuse for cruelty, but--at an orphanage--perhaps we are obliged to withhold love; if you fail to withhold love at an orphanage, you will create an orphanage that no orphan will willingly leave. You will create a Homer Wells--a true orphan, because his only home will always be at St. Cloud's. — John Irving

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

No self-respecting snoop sneaks in before midnight anyway. — Lindsay Buroker

Gazing down at the black water remembering all the stories of women who had thrown themselves into it. They'd done it for love, because that was the effect love had on you. It snuck up on you, it grabbed hold of you before you knew it, and then there was nothing you could do. Once you were in it- in love- you would be swept away, regardless. Or so the books had it. — Margaret Atwood

I let the sun hit me. The sun's some kind of gift. Another day we're all alive. I wish she could understand. I'm just happy to be alive. — Jami Attenberg

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. — Theodore Parker

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. — Abu Bakr

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try. — Garry Kasparov

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. — Louis Kronenberger

see the building after work. It was a perfect night with stars and a full moon just above the trees, which he took to be a sign. 'I felt so happy,' he recalls. 'My dream was coming true.' Naeem and my father invested their entire savings of 60,000 rupees. They borrowed 30,000 rupees more to repaint the building, rented a shack across the road to live in and went from door to door trying to find students. Unfortunately — Malala Yousafzai

I never could make out what those damned dots meant. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them - and as one day we must always see them, only far better - should we ever know dullness? Greatly as we might enjoy all forms of art, much as we might learn through the eyes and thoughts of other men, should we fly to these for deliverance from ennui, from any haunting discomfort? Should we not just open our own child-eyes, look upon the things themselves, and be consoled? — George MacDonald

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you. — Norman Vincent Peale