Languille Poisson Quotes

#1. The noble-minded have nine states of mind: for eyes, bright; for ears, penetrating; for countenance; cordial; for demeanor, humble; for words, trustworthy; for service, reverent; for doubt, questioning; for anger circumspect; and for facing a chance to profit, moral.

Confucius

#2. I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Elizabeth Berkley

#3. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

Joanne Whalley

#4. My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

Kevin Hart

#5. I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them ... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best.

Evangeline Lilly

#6. Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Michael Bolton

#8. In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Lady Gaga

#9. In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.

Zooey Deschanel

#10. If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being - someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

Jose Mujica

#12. Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis De Sade

#13. - She studies mathematics at the Sorbonne.
...
- Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
- Yes, but I did it in the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebells with mathematics?

Khaled Hosseini

#14. To others in my family, the dog was something of a sacred object that had prolonged my father's life and helped to steady the rest of us. He was a fine dog, and after him, my father had no other dog.

Norman Maclean