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No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
— Suzanne Collins
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
— Iain Pears
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ...
— Arnold Schoenberg
Because he smells fantastic - like warm pears and crisp air.
— Kristen Callihan
Who you are is less important than what you seem.
— Iain Pears
Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!
— Scott Westerfeld
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
— Katharine Hepburn
A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough. — Alexander Pope
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough. — Alexander Pope
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
— Publilius Syrus
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
— Rebecca West
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
— Meridel Le Sueur
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
— Harriet Tubman
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
— Oliver Reed
I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.
— Lizzie Andrew Borden
although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In
— Iain Pears
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
— Iain Pears
I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.
— Iain Pears
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
— David Duchovny
There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.
— Ethel M. Dell
Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter's status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are,
— Iain Pears
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
— Iain Pears
Peter Pears and Ian Bostridge.
— Anonymous
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.
— Seraphim Of Sarov
Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean!
— Mitchell Beazley
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
— Iain Pears
A pear is a failed apple.
— George Carlin
Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.
— Iain Pears
'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
— Harriet Tubman
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
— Iain Pears
Avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.
— Adam Leith Gollner
I knew salesmen, they made good murderers.
— Iain Pears
Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)
— Jen Campbell
The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
— Iain Pears
Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.
— Michelle Forbes
I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.
— Charlotte Bingham
And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
— Iain Pears
Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.
— Iain Pears