#wit

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#lot #man #takes #without #wound

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#build #center #doing #every #extravagant

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. ↗

— Tom Peters

#change #course #enough #even #great

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. ↗

— Tom Peters

#cannot #human #human being #lovely #outset

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

And tears are heard within the harp I touch. ↗

— Petrarch

#heard #i #tears #touch #within

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. ↗

— William Petty

#consequence #father #here #killing #labor

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense. ↗

— Phaedrus

#cause #excess #keep #long #offense

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#along #am #dark #dark side #everything

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid