Courteline Quotes

#1. Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Lord Acton

#2. When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

Robert Redford

#3. My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

Richelle Mead

#4. Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Georges Courteline

#5. It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

Wilbur Olin Atwater

#6. It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline

#7. Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

Georges Courteline

#8. It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Georges Courteline

#9. Pray greatly.
Pray gladly.
Pray graciously.
Pray gallantly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

Georges Courteline

#11. If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Georges Courteline

#12. When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

Oscar Robertson

#13. One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

Georges Courteline

#14. The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

Julian Assange

#15. It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

Georges Courteline

#16. To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Georges Courteline

#17. If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Georges Courteline

#18. He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

#19. Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of "mathematical beauty," of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance.

Robert M. Pirsig

#20. Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

Georges Courteline

#21. The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

Shaquille O'Neal

#22. Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Wendell Berry

#23. One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

Georges Courteline

#24. I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

Ansel Adams