Seckel Pear Quotes & Sayings

I've learned we don't always get to pick our circumstances. We just get to deal with them. — Ginny Dye

Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust. — Laurel Mellin

I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him. — Simon Rich

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions — Alexander Graham Bell

Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart. — William Shakespeare

What is passing for religion in most of the Earth now is its opposite: xenophobia and road rage. — Richard Grossinger

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative. — Jonathan Ive

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief. — H.P. Lovecraft

Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid for it. — Whitney Gracia Williams

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you" — Martin Luther

If the shoe fits you're lucky. — Malcolm Forbes

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell. — Billy Sunday

You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her. — J.R. Ward