Reverand Parris Quotes & Sayings

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business. — Rick Riordan

People in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should — Nicholas Sparks

Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war. — Renate Bridenthal

Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, visa politics ... etc.) are still made in an unjust, unreasonable way. — Sasa Stanisic

You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running, running, running and laughing. By laughing the two runners are proclaiming to the whole world, to audiences in all the movie theaters: "We're happy, we're glad to be in the world, we're in agreement with being!" It's a silly scene, a cliche, but it expresses a basic human attitude: serious laughter, laughter "beyond joking."
All churches, all underwear manufacturers, all generals, all political parties, are in agreement about that kind of laughter, and all of them rush to put the image of the two laughing runners on the billboards advertising their religion, their products, their ideology, their nation, their sex, their dishwashing powder. — Milan Kundera

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield