The Great Pearl Of Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in. — Kevin Henkes

Today is a gift.
Today is all I have.
I will be fully awake in today. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise; — Moliere

A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide — Bangambiki Habyarimana

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Return me safely to my home," the princess said, "and I shall reward you with your weight in eggs."
Olorun snorted derisively. "You're joking, right?"
The woman's eyes flitted in embarrassment.
"Now wait a minute," said Helianthus. "We're talkin' eggs here. What sort of eggs? Ostrich eggs?"
Neferre made an impatient noise. "Hel! She doesn't have any eggs! Unless they're hidden in a very . . . delicate place." Neferre grinned at the princess. "Tell me your eggs are hidden where I think they're hidden. — Ash Gray

The others. Swear to me you'll at least try to help them, to make them see. — Leigh Bardugo

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — Samuel Johnson

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness. — Wyndham Lewis

Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship. — Dada Bhagwan

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Doubts are necessary; they keep us on the right path — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity." He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. "I can drain faster than you can run. — Kiersten White

When you fall out of love, it doesn't mean that you stop loving someone. They just don't make your heart beat faster. You don't crave them until you don't know where they end and you begin. I don't know that I ever fell out of love with Ben, but I do know that I fell in love with Arsen along the way. Or maybe I confused fucking and lust for love. I don't know. I don't think I will ever know. — Mia Asher

Politics preys on people's naivety — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to. — Michele Gorman

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines — Bangambiki Habyarimana

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive. — Oren Lyons

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. — Ace Frehley

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. ( ... ) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. ( ... ) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich. — Michael Novak