A Quotes
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“A peaceful feeling: A happy harmony or symphony of all of our character pieces working in powerful unison” from Cinderella In Focus”
Source: Cinderella In Focus: "Finding hope when you're feeling a sense of hopelessness!"
“A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.”
“A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!”
“A peaceful life isn't a boring life.”
“A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.”
“A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.”
“A peaceful mind creates joyful thoughts and fills the world with infinite joy.”
“A peaceful mind generates power.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!”
“A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind.”
“A peaceful soul remains peaceful at all times.”
“A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.”
Source: War Or Peace
“A peaceful world is only the world of handsome guys and beautiful ladies.”
“A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.”
“A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!”
“A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.”
“A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.”
Source: Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto
“A peacemaker is not merely someone who protests against the war; he is one who is inwardly so yielded to Christ in spirit and purpose that He can be called a "son of God." Where he goes, God goes and where God goes, he goes. He is fearless, calm, and bold. Peace emanates from him the way light and heat radiate from fire.”
Source: The Three Battlegrounds
“A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.”
“A peach, slightly unbalanced, so that it listed to one side, its hue the color of an early sunrise. Had George remembered their conversation at the party and left the peach for her to eat? Strange. For a moment she thought it might be a trompe l'oeil work of art, some fantastic piece of glass. She leaned over and sniffed. The blooming perfume was unmistakable. She touched it with the tip of her finger. The peach was not quite ripe, but it was real.
The next day, she checked the kitchen as soon as she arrived. The peach lay there still, blushing deeper in the window light. She bent to smell, and the perfume was headier then before, a scent of meadows and summers home from school. Still unripe. Was George waiting to eat this beauty?”
Source: The Cookbook Collector
“A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade.”
“A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.”
“A peal of mirth almost escaped me at the notion of shaming the blood-soaked House of Atreus, as if it had even been clean.”
Source: Clytemnestra's Bind
“A pear is a failed apple.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.”
“A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.”
Source: Poetical works
“A pearl, a tear,
a drop of sky
the Weaver spins a net
so fine, unseen
until the breath,
the sigh,
the veil of night
reaches across all known things”
Source: Mystical Tides
“A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.”
“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”
“A pearl of wisdom is far more valuable than a ton of BS”
Source: Captain Quark and the Time Cheaters
“A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.”
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.”
Source: About Looking
“A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
Source: The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery
“A pebble thrown in a pool
may ripple from end to end,
but tossed into the sea,
it is swallowed by enormity.”
Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
“A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.”
Source: Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
“A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.”
“A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.”
Source: Spillville: A Collaboration
“A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth, it can be altered through discrimination and choice.”
Source: Discovering the True You with Ayurveda: How to Nourish, Rejuvenate, and Transform Your Life
“A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.”
“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
Source: UnSouled
“A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.”
“A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.”
“A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!”
“A pedophile only screws kids. Democrats screw everyone.”