The Enemy Pearl S Buck Quotes & Sayings

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians ... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both. — Chuck Close

The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy. — Dean C. Barnlund

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots. — Aesop

This was an easy matter with a man Oft in the wrong, and never on his guard; And even the wisest, do the best they can, Have moments, hours, and days, so unprepared, That you might 'brain them with their lady's fan;' And sometimes ladies hit exceeding hard, And fans turn into falchions in fair hands, And why and wherefore no one understands. — George Gordon Byron

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty. — Ryan Hall

At some point you just have to let go ... knowing full well you might look back in a couple years and be embarrassed by the finished product. But that's life. And like I said before, if I were to strive for perfection I would never get anything done. — Elizabeth Rudnick

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you. — Ken Poirot