Gounelle Livres Quotes

#1. No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

Isaiah Berlin

#2. I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.

Gaby Hoffmann

#3. Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.

Eric Weiner

#4. The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.

Muhammad Ali

#5. I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

Ronda Rousey

#6. As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.

Penn Jillette

#7. Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

Michio Kushi

#8. After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

Wes Bentley

#9. By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

George Gilder

#10. My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.

Ian Woosnam

#11. You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Jamie Farr

#12. It is enough to know that not to know is enough.
It is enough not to know.

Marcus Sedgwick

#13. I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.

Scarlett Johansson

#14. I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Perry Farrell

#15. The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Henry Moore