Bavarde Imparfait Quotes

#1. I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

Carl Andre

#2. show me a person who says their family is normal, and i'll show you an orphan!

Martha Frankel

#3. We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I'm not very tall, so I rely on quickness.

Henrik Lundqvist

#4. If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Natalie De Clare

#5. So this is how a war starts ... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge ... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come.

Suzanne Collins

#6. And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity.
The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. VIII "Ha! ha! ha! But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality, say what you like," you will interpose with a chuckle. "Science has succeeded in so far analysing man that we know already that choice and what is called freedom of will is nothing else than -

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest. Don Juan, I. 73

Stendhal

#9. I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

Ron Paul

#10. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.

Mary Lou Retton

#11. If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak

#12. The way is light and fluid for the man with
no preferences.

Laozi

#13. Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Margaret Mead

#14. Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Franz Grillparzer