Top 43 Mistral Quotes
#1. Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
Walker Percy
#2. Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon
Jean Alesi
#3. Mistral. Take the wheel for a while. I'll go down to the galley
Daniel Silva
#4. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
#5. When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.
Robert B. Parker
#6. Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
Gabriela Mistral
#7. Atticus, are we going to win it?" "No, honey." "Then, why - " "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.
Harper Lee
#8. You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.
Simon Le Bon
#9. I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.
Torii Hunter
#10. Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#11. I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they're more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.
Gabriella Mistral
#13. For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.
Gabriela Mistral
#16. Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with
enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
Provence: sunshine.
Frederic Mistral
#17. In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
Gabriela Mistral
#18. Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
Gabriela Mistral
#19. The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
Gabriela Mistral
#20. At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral
#21. Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
Gabriela Mistral
#22. Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
#23. Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
#24. I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
Seann William Scott
#25. What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,
Gabriela Mistral
#26. Dusk
I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,
and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
Gabriela Mistral
#27. It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
Richard Dawkins
#28. To break men off particular sins, and not to break their hearts, is to deprive ourselves of advantages of dealing with them
John Owen
#29. You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid - and I know they are - yet I won't be wiser?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!
Gabriela Mistral
#31. Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
Gabriela Mistral
#32. I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.
Gabriela Mistral
#33. There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Gabriela Mistral
#34. If you're in a life and death struggle, and I handed you a weapon, would you use it?
God has handed you the most power weapon: The Name of Jesus.
All He requires is that you practice using it.
Fire at will!
Matthew Akers
#35. When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.
Frederic Mistral
#36. You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.
Gabriela Mistral
#37. Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.
Gabriela Mistral
#38. I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Gabriela Mistral
#39. Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
Gloria Steinem
#41. I was 24 years old when they moved; my brother and sister were 27. Eventually, my sister moved to the same town, but my brother and I stayed north, he in Maryland, I in Ohio. A family,
Paul Daugherty
#42. Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Gabriela Mistral
#43. Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue
it drives away flies.
Frederic Mistral
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