Georges Duhamel Quotes

#1. Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

Georges Duhamel

#2. When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Georges Duhamel

#3. Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Chogyam Trungpa

#4. Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel

#5. A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans ... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Georges Duhamel

#6. Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Georges Duhamel

#7. The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

Georges Duhamel

#8. To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Georges Duhamel

#9. In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Georges Duhamel

#10. Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

Alan Powers

#11. A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

David McCullough

#12. I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

William Shakespeare

#13. It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Georges Duhamel

#14. We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel

#15. No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Georges Duhamel

#16. If love is the answer then I don't wanna ask the question

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#17. I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

Jaye Davidson

#18. Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

Georges Duhamel

#19. We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

Georges Duhamel

#20. True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

#22. Don't be fooled by the magic of the world.

Kris Villarreal

#23. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Georges Duhamel

#24. The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Georges Duhamel

#25. All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals, ... is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization ... it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.

Georges Duhamel

#27. I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

Anderson Cooper

#28. The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Ruby Dee

#29. It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Georges Duhamel

#30. You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

Georges Duhamel

#31. There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Georges Duhamel

#32. We are the slaves of slaves

William Nicholson

#33. I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Georges Duhamel

#34. What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

Daisaku Ikeda

#35. You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

Craig Silvey

#36. The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Duhamel