Douceur De Vivre Quotes

#1. A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Agatha Christie

#2. Those were the worst memories. Precious and perfect. Sharp as a mouthful of glass. I lay in bed, clenched into a trembling knot, unable to sleep, unable to turn my mind to other things, unable to stop myself from remembering again. And again. And again

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Effect should come first. Method second.

Fred Kaps

#4. Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful
And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you
Lovin' you I see your soul come shining through
And every time that we ooooh I'm more in love with you

Minnie Riperton

#5. Jews have sprung up and are amassing money,

Anton Chekhov

#6. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Rick Warren

#7. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Bob Ross

#8. What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

Nikki Giovanni

#9. I tell her she's beautiful and perfect and she's going to be okay. I tell her she doesn't need to change herself to fit in with shallow girls or to matter to someone. I tell her everything I wish I had ever known. I tell her I love her, and I realize as I say it that I love me, too.

Cristin Terrill

#10. Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

Paul Wolfowitz

#11. Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded.

Michael Hibbard

#12. Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Mason Cooley

#13. I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

George Carlin

#14. We can pass the eight Dreadnoughts, if we are sure of the eight Shackleton's.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

Joel Osteen