Jacquemont Quotes

#1. He is a thinker,' wrote Jacquemont in his memoir, 'who finds nothing but solitude in that exchange of words without ideas which is dignified by the name of conversation in the society of this land.

William Dalrymple

#2. Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.

Carlos Salinas

#3. It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

Ramsay MacDonald

#4. Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.

S.J. Watson

#5. The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

Phil Mickelson

#6. We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

Epicurus

#7. The main character of any living system is openness.

Ilya Prigogine

#8. In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

Jean Hersey

#9. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Jillian Michaels

#10. You can have all you can expect and accept.

Eric Butterworth