Espirit Quotes

#1. There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

James Brady

#2. There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.

Neil Gaiman

#3. But of course people were different, she remembered; they were allowed to be different.

Meg Wolitzer

#4. Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#5. So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

George R R Martin

#6. No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.

Margaret Truman Daniel

#7. Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

LeBron James

#8. True Happiness doesn't come from Prosperity, Pleasure, and Power, but from PEACE.-RVM

R.v.m.

#9. We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Was it possible that some men possessed so great a force of character that they could stamp themselves upon their words such that no matter where they were read, or when, or in what language, their own distinctive tones would always be heard?

Amitav Ghosh

#11. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton

Sophie Kinsella