Maurice Barres Quotes

#1. I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

Sara Paretsky

#2. If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

Noel Gallagher

#3. I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

Tim Gunn

#4. If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.

Anthony Trollope

#5. Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

Alex Smith

#6. We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

Maurice Barres

#7. It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

Maurice Barres

#8. The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Maurice Barres

#9. Sincerity is technique.

W. H. Auden

#10. It really is a terrifying experience to be buzzed like that if you cannot see the airplane coming. You cannot hear it coming, at that speed, until it is just a fraction of a second away. Then the noise hits you like a bomb blast. You can really get someone's attention like that.

Milton O. Thompson

#11. For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!

William Kircher

#12. Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

Walt Whitman

#13. I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Penelope Lively

#14. This is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely vaccinated community.

Eula Biss