Pullen Pleater Quotes & Sayings

Optimism is the spirit of confident soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. — Oliver Goldsmith

But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel ... Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us. — Orhan Pamuk

He remembered well, with the curious patient memory of the celibate, the first casual caresses her dress, her breath, her fingers had given him ... He remembered well her eyes, the touch of her hand and his delirium ... — James Joyce

I like naps. I don't drink coffee. — Spike Jonze

Few things are more fun than creating your own canon. — Johanna Mead

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death. — Henry David Thoreau

Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food. — Ted Nugent

(Basel Accords) to set capital ratios. Under these guidelines, the — John A. Allison

We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons ... The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success ... lies in adhering to the old principles of the party. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves. — Martin O'Malley

We suffocate with uncoordinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be. — Will Durant

So quickly does nationalism surface in the heart of a man who thought he was above such tribalism. — Orson Scott Card