Genlis Quotes

#1. Do not sanction an absurdity.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#2. She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless

Isha Karki

#3. In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#4. The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.

Brad Alan Lewis

#5. When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

Biz Stone

#6. I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Arnold Schoenberg

#7. Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#8. Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#9. A terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

George Eliot

#10. How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#11. You feel perfect," Hunter grunted, slamming up and wringing a strangled moan from me. "You are perfect for me, only me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Mitch Albom

#13. Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#14. If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#15. I don't date. I'm strictly for recreational purposes. - Leo

Kristan Higgins