Tuomo Pekkala Quotes & Sayings

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself — Pearl S. Buck

We are sisters, and there's nothing she or I can ever say or do to change that. — Jenny Han

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I had noticed that before to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. — Diana Gabaldon

You have a challenge; never quit! — Nelson Rockefeller

The anthropoligical theorist Paul Shepard writes, 'Humans intuitivesly see analogies between the concrete world out there and their own inner world. If they conceive the former as a chaos of anarchic forces or as dead and frozen, then so will they perceive their own bodies and society; so will they think and act on that assumption and vindicate their own ideas by altering the world to fit them.' The loss of a relationship to the nonconstructed world is a loss of these metaphors. It is also loss of the large territory of the senses, a vast and irreplaceable loss of pleasure and meaning. — Rebecca Solnit

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. — Rick Perlstein

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. — Edward Norton