French Philosopher Montaigne Quotes

#1. As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.

Kristin Neff

#2. Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Tom Hodgkinson

#3. Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

James Hillman

#4. Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

John Lyly

#5. Architecture theory is very interesting.

David Byrne

#6. The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

Samuel P. Huntington

#7. The real question my students are asking is "Why doesn't grammar make sense?"
And the answer is illuminating: grammar is a mirror to ourselves.

Gabriel Wyner

#8. I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.

Ben Schwartz

#9. I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

Eric Van Lustbader

#10. Hope is dancing in the sky
Inviting you to have a dance.

Debasish Mridha

#11. We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

Judith Martin

#12. Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

#13. Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

Mark Salling

#14. Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#15. Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." ...
"Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." ...
"With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting.

Natasha Mostert

#16. Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

Millard Kaufman