Michel Bras Quotes

#1. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.

Laura Esquivel

#2. I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

Al Jourgensen

#3. He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.

John Le Carre

#4. The "supreme good" and its attainment
that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Josef Pieper

#5. I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.

Michelle Huneven

#6. I am not a general or a tactician, but her reasoning is clear. I am the little lightning girl - living electricity, a lightning bolt in human form. People know my name, my face, and my abilities. I am valuable, I am powerful, and Maven will do anything to stop me from striking back.

Victoria Aveyard

#7. In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. Compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.

Ron Wyden