#com

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck. ↗

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #common #good #good person #into

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#books #edit #i #i do #keep

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#far #i #know #life #lot

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ↗

— Johann Pestalozzi

#happiness #man #must #own #right

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. ↗

— Daniela Pestova

#back #bumps #case #coming #crashed

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else. ↗

— Daniela Pestova

#comfortable #else #look #someone #you

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#accomplished #employees #incompetence #level #reached

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#beholder #competence #contact #eye #eye of the beholder

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ↗