Contrepoint Larousse Quotes

#1. How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
By watching how you correct yours.
How do children learn to overcome their failures?
By watching how you overcome yours.
How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
By watching you forgive yourself.

William Martin

#2. Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. It was enough to disillusion a man, Red Philips remarked, if a man were silly enough to have illusions. Red

James Brady

#4. You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.

Christopher Isherwood

#5. I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

Steve Hockensmith

#6. If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

Spencer Abraham

#7. Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

Bruce Swedien

#8. America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Pete Wentz

#10. He's evil in a can.

John Jackson Miller

#11. Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Igor Stravinsky

#12. She rose. "I'll just go get the wine."
"I'm not interested in wine."
She walked away, tossed a glance over her shoulder. "You will be. When I start licking it off you.

J.D. Robb