Best Pearl Wisdom
297 Pearl quotes by 245 unique authors
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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
— Eddie Vedder
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Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back…
— Steven Van Zandt
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My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and…
— Sigourney Weaver
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis…
— George Will
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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al…
— John Yoo
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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts…
— W G Sebald
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
— Victor Hugo
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and…
— Virginia Woolf
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No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of…
— Virginia Woolf
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...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty…
— Anita Desai
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I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The moon in her chariot of pearl
— Oscar Wilde
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at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were…
— Janet Fitch
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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant…
— Oscar Wilde
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that…
— Jodi Picoult
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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
— Jack Kerouac
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It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
— John Steinbeck
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I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S.…
— James Patterson
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[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst…
— Terry Pratchett
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Saxton smelled really good and had a handshake that was firm. "You've grown up a lot." Blay found himself flushing as he took his hand…
— J R Ward
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He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's…
— Loretta Chase
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