Bill Peet Quotes

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

Bill Peet

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• The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Red
  • Blue

• He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Pretending

• We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Fight
  • Terrorism

• Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Judge

• You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Vision

• We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Offers
  • Housing
  • Alumni

• Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Home
  • Play
  • Child

• I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • May
  • Fooled

• All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Pride
  • Sin
  • Lust

• Language can do what it can’t say.

  

  William Stafford
  • Language

• Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

  

  Godfrey Gao
  • Chinese
  • Strange
  • Read

• Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Illusion
  • Praise
  • Catastrophe

• She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Soul
  • Eye
  • Rose

• I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

  

  Kate Reed
  • Thought
  • Jump
  • Pressure

• Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

  

  Bill Peet
  • Grows
  • Greediness