Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Quotes to Explore
-
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
-
I'm a strong woman.
-
Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
-
The only thing you ever have is now.
-
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
-
As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
-
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
-
I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
-
I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
-
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
-
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.
-
You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
-
Whales have calves, Cats have kittens Bears have Cubs, Bats have bittens, Swans have cygnets, Seals have puppies, But guppies just have little guppies.
-
Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!
-
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
-
The history of the Romanovs is an Elizabethan tragedy that lasts for three centuries. Its keynote is cruelty, a barbaric, pointless kind of cruelty that has always been common in the East, but that came to Europe only recently, in the time of Hitler.
-
The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear:
-
Is this the visitor from the wrong side of the mirror? Or the shape that suddenly flitted past my window? Is it the new moon playing tricks, or is someone really standing there again between the stove and the cupboard?
-
In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
-
What will come of these things? That is a fair question. Unfortunately there is no answer. Not yet. If we knew the answer in advance, we would not have to perform the experiment.
-
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
-
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
