Inflexion Quotes

#1. Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes

#2. She had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.

Ford Madox Ford

#3. If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

Sir Fulke Greville

#5. Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Melissa Rosenberg

#6. The most powerful presence in the room is his absence.

Claudia Gray

#7. In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

Najib Razak

#8. The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

Maimonides

#9. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne