Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I think I need security.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.
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I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Who would I be if I complained about having a father that provided for me? Who would I be if I was complaining about having a father who loved me? That would make me a real jerk.
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Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
