Breton Nadja Quotes

#1. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

#2. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Orrin Woodward

#3. One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that 'I want this person to like me.' That's going to make you very uninteresting. But the lonely, they just can't help but focus on that.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#4. Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#5. There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

Andre Breton

#6. I am the soul in limbo.

Andre Breton

#7. You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Jean M. Auel

#8. I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However, most of my books are researched based on Canadian laws or the laws of each country (ie: Mexico and USA) and I do my best to make them accurate.

Franny Armstrong

#9. These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

Mike Schmoker

#10. Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Andre Breton

#12. When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#13. A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.

Marty Rubin

#14. All I could see was that the one year I was really primed for holiday cheer, no one else was cooperating.

Jane Green

#15. Our bodies were trash.
We leave them on the shore.

Anne Sexton