Pupa Quotes & Sayings

The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the sun. The sun casts its rays on the Houses as it passes, turning them crimson. The color worn by the physical Cardinals is red, to symbolize that they are illuminated by their proximity to the Pope, the representative of God on earth. The word Pope, may also be a derivative of the word in Egyptian for the evil serpent Apep, Apophis or Apopsa (See Poop Deck and Pupa, and Pepsi, Pepsid, Dr. Pepper, Sgt. Pepper, etc,). — Michael Tsarion

A plague of ennui afflicted London's many prophets. Warning signs were discarded, pamphlets pulped, megaphones thrown into cupboards. Those who could count questionable presences insisted that even since the Architeuthis had disappeared, something new had been walking. Something driven and intense and intent on itself. And since shortly after that, it had unfolded again and become something a little more itself, emerged from a pupa of unspecificity
into sentience, a obsessive moment of now that trod heavy in time.
No, they didn't really know what that mean, either, but that was their very strong impression. And it was freaking them out. — China Mieville

The gift of today is a sacred-blessing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air. — Michael Chabon

The winter is made and you have to bear it,
The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags ... — Wallace Stevens

I find that being considerate of others and keeping what I say and what I do in agreement makes for a great night's sleep. — Steve Maraboli

Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses
It's a power that overcomes every obstacle — Mario

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present. — Stewart Udall

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles. — Jared Harris

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it. — William James

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. — Dasha Zhukova

Child Abuse is ... the mean and terrible things you do to a child ... knowing that you can never get away with doing the same to an adult! — Timothy Pina

A metamorphosis ... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art. — A.S. Byatt

Life's unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web. — D.A. Pupa

I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language. — Alexander Pushkin

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. — George Bernard Shaw

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived. — Waris Ahluwalia

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up. — Mikhail Bakunin

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me. — Wallace Stegner

You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis. — Dubravka Ugresic