Pyoue Quotes & Sayings

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection. — San Juan De La Cruz

In raising problems without solutions, in posing questions without answers, in retreating to the hermetic, cavernous abode of complaint, pessimism is guilty of that most inexcusable of Occidental crimes - the crime of not pretending it's for real. Pessimism fails to live up to the most basic tenet of philosophy - the "as if." Think as if it will be helpful, act as if it will make a difference, speak as if there is something to say, live as if you are not, in fact, being lived by some murmuring non-entity both shadowy and muddied. — Eugene Thacker

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B." — Devendra Banhart

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. — John Dufresne

The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink. — Claudia Rankine

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's. — Kellie Martin

I looked at Jonah. "I'm still learning who you are. And you're my partner, so I appreciate that you're willing to take a punch for me." I walked to Ethan and glared up at him. "But you know better than this, Ethan Sullivan. — Chloe Neill

Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you. — Joe Frazier

Now this little gal isn't much of a singer," she would say. "She learned singing by a correspondence course, and she missed a coupla lessons, but she's the nicest little gal in the whole show, so I want ya to give her a big hand. — Bill Bryson