Perry Dimaria > Perry's Quotes

“It made me realize that I had to leave my old life behind, because nobody but me cared about it.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

“One day isn’t good enough, Isaac. My patient is in dire need today, right now.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“But things had changed, and now she sat in her car outside her childhood residence staring at an open gate with a fifteen-inch Bowie knife in her lap, thinking. ”
― Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen: A Small-Town Political Thriller

“Art should stimulate the mind and soul”
― Rich DiSilvio

“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

“Small seedlings are often stronger when they grow with company rather than isolation.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Rivers don’t sleep,

dark forests rise,

sodden roots shatter

the concrete prison.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

“The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance. Since polytheists believe, on the one hand, in one supreme and completely disinterested power, and on the other hand in many partial and biased powers, there is no difficulty for the devotees of one god to accept the existence and efficacy of other gods. Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes ‘heretics’ and ‘infidels’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...”
― Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

“Talkativeness and charm are both, as is well-known, characteristics somewhat feminine; and they often add up to guile. Certainly there was a strong streak of the female in Roosevelt, though this is not to disparage his essential masculinity. Confidence in his own charm led him into occasional perilous adventures—almost as a woman may be persuaded with a long series of glittering successes behind her, to think she is irresistible forever and can win anybody's scalp.”
― John Gunther, Roosevelt In Retrospect: A Profile in History

“Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

“To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness; -it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides. Life is not designed to minister to a man's vanity. He goes upon his long business most of the time with a hanging head, and all the time like a blind child. Full of rewards and pleasures as it is - so that to see the day break or the moon rise, or to meet a friend, or to hear the dinner-call when he is hungry, fills him with surprising joys - this world is yet for him no abiding city. Friendships fall through, health fails, weariness assails him; year after year, he must thumb the hardly varying record of his own weakness and folly. It is a friendly process of detachment. When the time comes that he should go, there need be few illusions left about himself. Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: -surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon