Laurain Quotes

#1. A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: 'Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you.

Antoine Laurain

#2. Governments come and go. Life is the only movement that keeps going,' he

Antoine Laurain

#3. There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Chris Gardner

#4. It's the story of a bookseller who finds a handbag in the street one day, takes it home with him, empties out its contents and decides to look for the woman who owns it. He succeeds but when he finds her, he runs off like an idiot.

Antoine Laurain

#5. as men are wicked and not prepared to keep their word to you, you have no need to keep your word to them.

Antoine Laurain

#6. Books are cold but safe friends

Victor Hugo

#7. There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.

Antoine Laurain

#8. Can you experience nostalgia for something that hasn't happened? We talk of 'regrets' about the course of our lives, when we are almost certain we have taken the wrong decision; but one can also be enveloped in a sweet and mysterious euphoria, a sort of nostalgia for what might have been. Meeting

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#9. passionate leadership.

Rob Roy

#10. How many things do we feel obliged to do for the sake of it, or for appearances, or because we are trained to do them, but which weigh us down and don't in fact achieve anything?

Antoine Laurain

#11. I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

Hyman Rickover

#12. What I really need is a friend just like me; I'm sure I'd be my own best friend.

Antoine Laurain

#13. Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.

H.G.Wells

#14. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

George Whitefield

#15. I'm not that hard to get to know, really." He flashed me a quick smile. "But you ... I think you've made an art form out of deflection and self-possession.

Samantha Young

#16. Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey

Thom Yorke

#17. Figure out what you are doing is special. What + Who + Why + How = Awesome. Then preach to the masses.

Timi Nadela

#18. What Robert was trying to do so intently was, in fact, no more than craft. He did no more than copy my tics and twitches - even to the point of staring at my family portrait, a very personal part of my disguise, for his character research -

Jeff Lindsay

#19. Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.

Michael Connelly

#20. Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

Abby Wambach

#21. He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule.

Antoine Laurain

#22. There's nothing worse than being bored with a boring man.

Antoine Laurain

#23. Do great things, Laure, be happy, or at least do your best to be. Life is fragile

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#24. I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. That's where a book should be carried.

Joan Bauer

#25. To quote Patrick Modiano, whom you you seem to like, in Villa Triste, 'There are mysterious beings, always the same, who watch over us at each crossroads in our lives.' Let's just say that, unintentionally, I have been one of those beings.

Antoine Laurain