Charles Nodier Quotes

#1. No one ever volunteers for change. Even when the situation they're in makes them unhappy, most people would rather stick with the unhappy they know, than take a chance on something unknown.

Alyson Noel

#2. Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Charles Nodier

#3. It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

Charles Nodier

#4. To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool.

Charles Nodier

#5. At the end of his life, no man, if he be sincere and in possession of his faculties, would ever wish to go though it again. Rather than this, he will much prefer to choose complete nonexistence.

Irvin D. Yalom

#6. After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

Charles Nodier

#7. Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

Daniel Tammet

#8. Holly had married him: well, well. I wished I were under the wheels of the train.

Truman Capote

#9. After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

Charles Nodier

#10. The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

Charles Nodier

#11. No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.

Irving Townsend

#12. It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Anais Nin

#13. Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

Charles Nodier

#14. Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

John Clute

#15. The march to the center of Caracas will not be permitted. I will use a hard hand against fascism and intolerance. I declare it. If they want to overthrow me, come and get me. Here I am, with the people and the armed forces.

Nicolas Maduro

#16. you raise me up so i can stand on mountains you raise me up to walk on stormy seas i am strong when i am on your shoulders you raise me up to more than i can be

Brendan Graham

#17. In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember ... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms? ...

Charles Nodier

#18. A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

Charles Nodier

#19. Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

Francis Atterbury

#20. Literature is the expression of society.

Charles Nodier

#21. If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

Charles Nodier

#22. Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

Charles Nodier

#23. But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Charles Nodier

#24. There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

Charles Nodier

#25. I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

Barry Hannah

#26. The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

Laird Hamilton