Essais Quotes

#1. A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

Patricia Hampl

#2. When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

#3. There was also talk of bringing Al Gore to California to help out, but there was concern that Gray Davis and Al Gore in the same state would cause some kind of rolling personality blackout.

Jay Leno

#4. Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Zig Ziglar

#5. This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

Larry Bird

#6. It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

#7. ...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

Jake Wood

#8. Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

Frederick Lenz

#9. God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

John Piper

#10. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Georges Clemenceau

#11. If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. Friends ... They come to your house and they know your parents and. ... Sometimes a boy might ask me around to his house, and I might go or I might not, but I could never ask him back. So I never had friends, really. I would have liked ... I had my cat,

Philip Pullman

#13. Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Theodor Adorno

#14. I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.

Sebastian Faulks

#15. Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe