Anna Gavalda Breaking Away Quotes

#1. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. Yes, Mom, I know that I'll never find anybody who loves me with blue hair. That's why I dyed it pink.

Lila Felix

#3. What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

Aeschylus

#4. I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

Shirley Maclaine

#5. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

John McAfee

#6. The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Winnie Byanyima

#7. Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

John Ortberg

#8. The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#9. Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

Gary Johnson

#10. Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.

Janet Morris

#11. Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Man? What man? I thought it was a punching bag!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

Emile M. Cioran