Duplessis Quotes

#1. For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Jon Bon Jovi

#2. Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

Alber Elbaz

#4. Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

Karl Barth

#5. This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one

Alice Sebold

#6. I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

Maurice Duplessis

#7. If you don't want vows to materialize in your next life; don't take them!

Lizelle DuPlessis

#8. Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

Maurice Duplessis

#9. Judge character by behavior.

Lizelle DuPlessis

#10. A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.

Lizelle DuPlessis

#11. Abyss is not an absence
Though presence be destroyed.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

#12. tradition is truer than fashion.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Life is about knowing when to let go and when to hold on.

Bijou Hunter

#14. If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

George Harrison

#15. Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

David Richo

#16. God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no ... Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

Richard Rohr

#17. is the God that showed him wondrous stories and lessons. The primary lesson for George was that love is the only important work in this world. Love people, nature, animals, and creation itself - and to show compassion and generosity.

John Graden

#18. Our actions in the physical realm determine our spiritual position in the afterlife

Lizelle DuPlessis

#19. I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

Ben Schnetzer

#20. I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

Joan Cusack

#21. The bishops eat from my hand.

Maurice Duplessis

#22. This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.

Maurice Duplessis