Purlieu Vineyards Quotes & Sayings

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith. — Umar

In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. — G.K. Chesterton

Yet how hard it is to point to a moment. To say: there, in that moment, I changed. — Danielle Dutton

Dane discarded his speargun with visible relief. As a paladin of the Church of God Kraken, he had few options. Like many groups devoid of real power and realpolitik, the church was actually constrained by its aesthetics. Its operatives could not have guns, simply, because guns were not squiddy enough.
It was a common moan. Drunk new soldiers of the Cathedral of the Bees might whine: "It's not that I don't think sting-tipped blowpipes aren't cool, it's just ... " "I've gotten rally good with the steam-cudgel," a disaffected Pistonpunk might ask her elders "but wouldn't it be useful to ... ?" Oh for a carbine, devout assassins pined. — China Mieville

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries. — Thomas Piketty

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible. — Aristotle.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious. — Jodhi May

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. — Charles Frazier

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation. — Daniel Egger

Rule #17: To rescue a princess from magical imprisonment, a handsome prince must first slay the dragon. If one is not available, a large iguana will do in a pinch."
- Definitive Fairy-Tale Survival Guide, Volume 1 — Betsy Schow