Pearl Quotes

Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side

The mind's health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.

It does not matter what you have but who you are

Some people are so evil when they enter a house

Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem

I am lost to him. I never want to be found.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason

Live, love and enjoy the present moment. This moment is the pearl of your precious life.

Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire

All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels

They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

Isn’t time the only one true god? It makes and breaks

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

Love is better than any weapon

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

Doubt is the first ray of illumination

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

We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation

The function of the bridge is to mind the gap

Truth is like beauty

There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

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

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

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

Politics preys on people's naivety

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

[Will Turner] "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement."[Captain Jack Sparrow] "...that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then is it?

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.