De La Mettrie Quotes

#1. Love conquers everything even karma.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#2. Writers no longer work in solitude, crafting meaningful and elegant prose. No. They have to spend most of their time selling themselves on the fucking internet. Blogging and tweeting and updating their bloody Facebook pages and their wretched narcissistic websites.

Mal Peet

#3. Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#4. I've never really liked horror films.

Marcia Gay Harden

#5. Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#6. Whatever you can think of, do it now. Because you'll never be this young again.

Robyn Roze

#7. Revolution?" Arno laughed. "What happened wasn't a revolution. It was a deal. The creation of a new bunch of entrepreneurs who could be more easily manipulated by international capital.

Harry Kalmer

#8. On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.

Kathryn Stockett

#9. Honor didn't know it yet, but she was about to become a fixture in my life.

Cambria Hebert

#10. I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

Holland Taylor

#11. Don't worry, Jet. Just as long as we don't get into any situations that require grenades, we'll be fine." Indy said this like she wasn't joking.

Kristen Ashley

#12. ... it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#13. There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#14. Why do I lunge for control instead of joy? ... do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life ... Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130

Ann Voskamp

#15. As I close my eyes in prayer, let me see the faces of those who need to know You, beloved Savior.

Billy Graham

#16. The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#17. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#18. It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#19. Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#20. Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#21. Drew told me to never, ever talk to him about sex. As far as he's concerned, I'll be a virgin until I'm a hundred, same as Brenna.

Nalini Singh

#22. The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

Gertrude Stein

#23. Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#24. The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority. Here was a person for whom the word 'pen' had two syllables. He people undoubtedly drank from clay jugs and hollered for Paw when the vittles were ready
so who was she to advise me on anything?

David Sedaris

#25. The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#26. The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie