Alexandre Jollien Quotes

#1. Altruism is like rings in the water when you toss a pebble. At first the circles are very small, then they get larger, and finally they embrace the entire surface of the ocean. - ALEXANDRE JOLLIEN

Matthieu Ricard

#2. Life is not a rehearsal

Nina Levison

#3. Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Laura Linney

#4. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is treacherous and hard. And if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.

Neil Gaiman

#5. The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

Thomas A. Edison

#6. In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

Odeya Rush

#7. I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

Nicolas Cage

#8. Do not be angry with the audacity of a desperate and drowning man for making a last effort to save himself from perdition.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.

Terry McAuliffe

#10. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#11. Maybe it was the way of the South to welcome home wayward family members who had no claim to such a piece of history except for a willingness to adopt it as their own and a shared last name.

Karen White

#12. Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Raymond Loewy

#13. Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Rumi

#14. We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

David Agus

#15. Metaphor ... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

Laura Riding