Bordas Editeur Quotes

#1. It's hard to explain, but talking to them felt like stabbing and being stabbed.

John Green

#2. Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

Richard Louv

#3. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

Albert Brooks

#4. If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.

William Wallace

#5. Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Horace

#6. All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.

Robert Holden

#7. I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Anne Lamott

#8. All of life is a wager

Christopher Hitchens

#9. One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Vote for Toby. Vote for Toby. Hey, baby. How you doin'?" Slight pause. "Vote for Toby.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#11. But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit. It is the natural instinct of the once-antinomian prodigal who, when awakened, thinks in terms of working his way back into the favor of his father.38

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#12. When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

Shalom Harlow

#13. Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

George E.P. Box

#14. With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#15. Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

James Russell Lowell