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  • From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

  • 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 a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

    Lying   Thinking   Pearls  
    Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.287
  • If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

  • 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 which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

    Mother   Light   Boston  
    W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
  • 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.

    Love   Father   Son  
  • Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

    Men   Perfection   Long  
    Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
  • Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

    Hero   Men   Needs  
    Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc
  • When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

    Kings   Rocks   Different  
  • That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

  • The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

    Dad   War   Years  
  • If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

    Healing   Sea   Doe  
  • It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

  • We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

    Girl   Fall   Boys  
    James Lovegrove (2010). “The Age of Zeus”, p.144, Solaris
  • Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

    Marketing   Jam   Pearls  
  • I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama
  • As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

    Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55
  • History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

    Military   War   Army  
  • We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

    Ocean   Swim   Depth  
  • Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

    "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.
  • I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.

    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

    Girl   Hard Life   World  
    Song: I Like It Rough, 2008
  • Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

    Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437
  • Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

    Sweet   Heart   Blow  
    Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin
  • Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

  • For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible.

    "'This Is A Big Deal': Sen. Amy Klobuchar On Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 7, 2016.
  • 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.

    War   Winning   World  
  • The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

    War   Navy   Ships  
    "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.
  • The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

    Spiritual   Wine   Soul  
  • We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

    Moving   People   Tragedy  
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