De Menil Quotes

#1. An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Sigmund Freud

#2. I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

Sienna Miller

#3. But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Dominique De Menil

#4. I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

Barbara Feldon

#5. In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

Dominique De Menil

#6. I think we've established that you are not, in fact, the prince of this particular kingdom," I said. "But I am certainly the queen bitch around here.

Jennifer Estep

#7. Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

Max Weiss

#8. I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants.

Ronda Rousey

#9. Anything that requires thought is just too much.

Katherine Shindle

#10. Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

Dominique De Menil

#11. What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique De Menil

#12. But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.

Richelle Mead

#13. Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

Dominique De Menil

#14. We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

Stephen Covey

#15. Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

William Shakespeare

#16. This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

Amy Ewing

#17. For a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Oliver James

#19. God waits for us to create him.

Dominique De Menil