Juste Quotes

#1. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Henry Petroski

#2. Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read

Cynthia Hand

#3. The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.

Jacques Barzun

#4. Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

Lauren Willig

#5. I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

Carsten Juste

#6. It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.

Albert Einstein

#7. You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

Tim Ferriss

#9. Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#10. We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

Carsten Juste

#11. Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the wooden nesting dolls I'd played with as a child. Except instead of getting smaller, he just kept getting grander and more mysterious.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Jane Austen

#13. Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

#14. There was a shortage of soft furnishings and I'm sorry to say I was forced to use hard liquor.

D.L. Christopher

#15. I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

Karen Joy Fowler