Unpresentable Item Quotes & Sayings

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. — Leon Brown

(Potatoes were, for some reason, more prone to fits of random magic than most vegetables. It would take a remarkable magic to affect turnips or kale. No one bothered planting eggplants - they would run into the woods or fly away on leafy kites the instant your back was turned.) — T. Kingfisher

Those are pretty," She commented, leaning down to smell the flowers.
"They're from Violette," I said, watching for her reaction.
"They look like weeds," she replied, straightening. — Amy Plum

This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else. — Scott Adams

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. — Billy Bragg

I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world. — Pankaj Mishra

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives. — A.E. Samaan

To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. — Miguel Ruiz

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today. — Woody Allen

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. — Steve Prefontaine

If she'd been quizzed as to His Grace's eye color, she would've had to reply simply that they were dark. Which they were. Very dark, nearly black, but not quite. The Duke of Wakefield's eyes were a deep, rich brown, like coffee newly brewed, like walnut wood oiled and polished, like seal fur shining in the light, and even though they were rather lovely to look at, they were as cold as iron in winter. One touch and her very soul might freeze. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want. — Wayne Dyer

Smartass Disciple: Master, I believe that the truth will prevail at the end.
Master of Stupidity: No 'the end' for the truth. 'Prevail' is something else. — Toba Beta

We must dream our way. — Pablo Neruda

Both what you run from-
and what you yearn for -
are within you. — Anthony De Mello