Jean Giono Quotes

#1. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Jean Giono

#2. Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

Peter Deunov

#3. We imagine that some people will jump into the AR and VR space that are complementary. We look at Google Glass. It's very complementary. It's not competitive. It's a different experience. It's used for different purposes.

Brendan Iribe

#4. Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.

Garth Ennis

#5. I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Jean Giono

#6. I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Jean Giono

#7. Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

Lee Konitz

#8. And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his heart was all reflections in which the soul of the world moved.

Jean Giono

#9. I can see why my daughter likes you."
"Do you think she's falling for my dashing good looks, my charm, or the fact that I supply her with pastries?

Victoria Schwab

#10. A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#11. People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!

NisiOisiN

#12. Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

Jean Giono

#13. There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.

Jean Giono

#14. Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

Peter S. Beagle

#15. Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

Jean Giono

#16. Never, ever give up. You're never too old to chase your dreams. It looks like a solitary sport, but really a team effort

Diana Nyad

#17. None had had a chance to experience love in this way, to walk hand in hand with a man who would lay down his life for her. A day, a week, a month, a year - no matter how long she lived as a whole person, she would do it with an open heart and an unfettered spirit.

Nalini Singh

#18. The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Karen Maezen Miller

#19. Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.

Jean Giono

#20. The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

Jean Giono

#21. Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

Jean Rhys

#22. Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Jean Giono

#23. I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Romano Prodi

#24. Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.

Wesley K. Wark

#25. From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.

Jean Giono

#26. When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

Michael Richards