Pearl Bailey Quotes

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. ~ Pearl Bailey

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning. ~ Pearl Bailey

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself. ~ Pearl Bailey

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it. ~ Pearl Bailey

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door? ~ Pearl Bailey

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. ~ Pearl Bailey

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't. ~ Pearl Bailey

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. ~ Pearl Bailey

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. ~ Pearl Bailey

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future. ~ Pearl Bailey

My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.' ~ Nathan Lane

I discuss humanity and not races. ~ Pearl Bailey

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ~ Pearl Bailey

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. ~ Pearl Bailey

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. ~ Pearl Bailey

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. ~ Pearl Bailey

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. ~ Pearl Bailey

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune. ~ Pearl Bailey

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. ~ Pearl Bailey

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. ~ Pearl Bailey

No one can figure out your worth but you. ~ Pearl Bailey

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. ~ Mahalia Jackson

You never find yourself until you face the truth. ~ Pearl Bailey

As long as there has been knitting there have been battles about it. There are self-declared "yarn snobs," who frown on using anything but natural fibers; "gauge snobs", who wouldn't be caught dead with chunky yarn; and "experience snobs", who claim you can't declare yourself a real knitter until you abandon novelty yarns. The truth is that the knitting world is a tiny metaphor for the real world. It takes all kinds.
I will not allow myself to feel bad if someone disapproves of my knitting. I will also resist the urge to stuff his mailbox full of chunky acrylic fun fur at 3:00 am. ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations. ~ Pearl Zhu

The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle. ~ Philip James Bailey

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles. ~ George Bailey

Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations. ~ Pearl Zhu

When the president opened her eyes, the Bailey twins were gone. She looked around the Oval Office, but they had vanished into thin air. The president let out a deep sigh and glanced down at the magenta book in her hands. It was heavy in weight and in responsibility.
"And I thought health care would be my greatest hurdle," she said. ~ Chris Colfer

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. ~ Joe Baca

There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's. ~ Dave Eggers

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. ~ Pearl S. Buck

At the Richardson house were overstuffed sofas so deep you could sink into them as if into a bubble bath. Credenzas. Heavy sleigh beds. Once you owned an enormous chair like this, Pearl thought, you would simply have to stay put. You would have to plant roots and make the place that held this chair your home. ~ Celeste Ng

In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality. ~ Mariane Pearl

Agile is more a "direction," than an "end," a philosophy and mindset at board level. ~ Pearl Zhu

Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts. ~ Pearl Zhu

I think about how lonely I am without you. How boring my day is without you. How much I miss hearing your voice and your laugh. How much I miss listening to music and eating cake with you." We smiled shyly at each other. His gaze lifted, looking directly into my eyes. "I miss taking care of you," he hesitated for a moment. "I miss my best friend and I want her back in my life." His words glued every piece of my shattered heart back together. ~ Alison G. Bailey

Maiha
"Allow me to introduce you to the Children of Mars. On lead guitar and eight barreled Calliope Gatlin, Colonel Fujiyama. On bass and manning the double-barreled thirty millimeter PPC's we have Major Howard. Singing backup and key boards we have Fight Captain Benz with a lovely ten millimeter rapid fire gauss rifle. Her lovely partner Captain Martin on drums with her ten millimeter Hell-bore pulse laser rifle. And singing lead and front man, a true artist with a bang from the Castile sniper rifle, our Big Daddy, Papa of Death and Destruction, the one, the only, the man, the myth, the legend, Lord James Nakatoma- Bailey." When I finished Alice was giggling out loud. ~ Jessie Wolf

I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that. ~ George Bailey

Don't dump my stash. I hereby bequeath all manner of pleasure machines to you, my pasty, studious little friend. ~ Tessa Bailey

Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. ~ Pearl S. Buck

The romantic boy told her that her mother was like the oyster of the sea. Not because she carried the most beautiful shell, but because her daughter was a pearl. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is. ~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

Des snorted again, rolling her eyes at Ruby as if, in a world that contained werewolves, faeries were just over the top. ~ Rachel E. Bailey

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever. ~ F. Lee Bailey

Baby, sometimes what I'm thinking doesn't translate into words. You're going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay? ~ Tessa Bailey

Who do you think you are?" His gaze dropped to her lips. "I'm the guy who's going to kiss you tonight. ~ Tessa Bailey

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Relaxed Empiricism
I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. ~ Bill Bailey

We all have some genes that for unknown reasons are in the "off" mode; perhaps scientists will someday figure out how to flip these switches, and we'll each be able to choose other interesting animal traits: a tail, striped fur, wings, or even gastropod tentacles. ~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey

She was indeed beautiful, as if someone had taken the scientific measurements of perfection and used them to mold a single ideal specimen. Her face was slightly heart-shaped, with high cheekbones barely flushed. Auburn hair fell in silken ringlets to her waist and her unblemished ivory skin shimmered like mother-of-pearl in the sunshine. Her lips were red red red, looking like she'd just drunk a pint of blood. ~ Marissa Meyer

In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time. ~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey

If you loved the world the Creator had made for you, you did not shut out the blue heaven and its lights, or lie in foul air in a stuffy room, when in a bed outside you could smell the morning and watch its mother-of-pearl light softly touch the hills. ~ Vardis Fisher

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. ~ Adi Shankaracarya

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention. ~ Pearl Zhu

[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 into a pearl of creation ... ~ Nikolai Gogol

President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor. ~ Gore Vidal

Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself. ~ Pearl S. Buck

During the rainstorms of April the oyster rises from the sea and opens its shell - rain enters it - when it sinks the raindrops become the pearl. So take a picnic,
open your body, and give birth to pearls. ⠀ ~ Anne Sexton

Just make sure you're fighting for the right stuff. Don't destroy yourself for something ... someone ... who isn't going to fight just as hard for you. ~ Melissa Pearl