Faute Quotes

#1. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#2. It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

Joseph Fouche

#3. I had one friend with same-sex orientation, and Dana hadn't spoken to me since I asked her to describe her honeymoon in graphic detail - and then made vibrator noises.

Dani Alexander

#4. This focusing outward ... painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

M.L. Stedman

#5. The gift of beauty can be found in ugly feelings.

Deborah Sandella

#6. You do this often?" she asked.
"Drink or hijack women?

Debbie Macomber

#7. For someone grieving, cook with chives, ginger, coriander, and rosemary. Theirs is the pungent flavor, which draws grief up and out of the body and releases it into the air.

Nicole Mones

#8. Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something ... Find your passion and get good at it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt