Gwen John Quotes

#1. the sleeper must awaken

Frank Herbert

#2. We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it

Lupe Fiasco

#4. I am going to do some drawings or paintings ... in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

Gwen John

#5. Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Gwen John

#6. In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.

Vincent De Paul

#7. When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.

Gwen Moore

#8. I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

Gwen John

#9. While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.

Nigella Lawson

#10. Where's Dorothy?" Dad said.
"I don't know. She came in, took the money and went. I don't even know how she got in."
"What did she say?"
"She said "shush""
"And what did you say?"
"I shushed

Frank Cottrell Boyce

#11. The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#12. It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

Shay Mitchell

#13. HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Gwen John

#15. Tonight I have nothing to do but to dream and hope.

Debasish Mridha

#16. To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Gwen John

#17. I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

Grover Norquist

#18. I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

William O'Neill

#19. When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

Gwen John