Pearl Quotes

If you still have fear, you love life

Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life

Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.

Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy

Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared

Life is existence with meaning

Some people start to live when they die

Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety.

What's the use of life without health? It's like living dead

You can truly live if you can see yourself centuries after you have died. Just imagine it. What will people remember about you, how will your grave look like? How will your children live, etc.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

I came looking for life and I found you

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.

The gold, lamp, Xerxes, is probably the most important thing in your life.

The gold lamp, Xerxes, is probably the most important thing in your life.

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

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

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

[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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Politics preys on people's naivety

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

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

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

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

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

Truth is like beauty

The function of the bridge is to mind the gap

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation

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.

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

Doubt is the first ray of illumination

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.

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?

Love is better than any weapon

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.

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

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

Every book has its ancestors

Man is divided into two categories

Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.

Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you

Culture is like water in the sea