Memoire Des Hommes Quotes

#1. You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much

Boris Johnson

#3. Do deaf schizophrenics hear voices in sign language?

Nick James

#4. Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

Billy Connolly

#5. Pearl II [10w]
If the world's your pearl then you're an empty shell.

Beryl Dov

#6. The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.

Victor Shamas

#7. You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

Michael Reagan

#8. How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

Eric Hoffer

#9. Every championship, by definition, is historic.

George Vecsey

#10. Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night.

Luis Marques

#11. I'm sure you remember Lieutenant Tarbic."

"I do. I must say he looked better through my rifle scope.

E.J. Fisch

#12. The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.

Lauren Oliver

#13. Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.

E. M. Forster

#14. There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

Suetonius