Attali Quotes

#1. Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

David Richo

#2. You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Jacques Attali

#4. To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Herbert A. Simon

#5. Dying is as natural as being born, and all of us have to face it someday. Some sooner than others. It's difficult to understand the meaning of it all. The question isn't, 'Why do we die?' The correct question is, 'Why do we live?

S.M. Reine

#6. For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Jacques Attali

#7. Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds ...

Jacques Attali

#8. I DO NOT SNORE. And if I do, it's very ungallant of you to point it out.

E.L. James

#9. A bloody good thing, but too late.

Noel Coward

#10. I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

Jack Kirby

#11. God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

William Nicholson

#12. Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Richard Bach

#13. My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

Charlize Theron

#14. I literally think I look bad in every picture.

Reese Witherspoon

#15. The proof is in the pudding.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Jacques Attali

#17. Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Jacques Attali

#18. The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

Jacques Attali

#19. I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy it hurts ...

Ward Churchill

#20. Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. Today, music heralds ... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

#22. What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Jacques Attali

#23. Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.

Whitney Cummings