Purple Pickled Quotes & Sayings

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated. — Gary Zukav

Emma shifted her gaze to Steven, sitting just ahead of her at a table, Garrick Wright beside him. As though sensing her perusal, Steven shifted in his chair to look back at her, and to her utter amazement, he winked. She pursed her lips, amazed that he could take so serious a proceeding so lightly. He mimicked her dour expression, then turned to face the front of the courtroom again. The — Linda Lael Miller

Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time. — Robin Hobb

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others. — Ella Baker

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

She couldn't get past him. After another minute, she screamed, You'll never take me alive! I'll never let you get me to a secondary location! — Shelly Laurenston

This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must eat. You don't really entertain the notion of going back. You, with some startling new level of clarity, realize that going back would be far worse than simply being as you are. This is obvious to anyone without an eating disorder. This is not always obvious to you. — Marya Hornbacher

I am in control of my career, and that's what so many actors don't take advantage of. You get to these successful points, and you continue to just work for other people. But, when you're your own brand and you're your own boss, the whole line of work changes. That's my biggest turn on. — Kevin Hart

Treachery," said the Mede.
"Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name. — Megan Whalen Turner

Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access. — Megan Smith

Humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law.. — Ayn Rand

She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; what was his; what was promised. — Shewanda Pugh

But that doesn't explain the apparently random killing of women and children. No, there was something else behind it, the same thing that's inspired ritual murder cults around the world. Vast numbers of people have been sacrificed for a variety of beliefs. Whether you kill to terrify your enemies or to appease gods like Zeus or Kali, it all gets down to one thing: power. — Tess Gerritsen

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. — Barbara Olson