Neveux's Quotes

#1. I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]

Guy De Maupassant

#2. Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

Clarence DeMar

#3. I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

Edward W. Said

#4. I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Michel Faber

#5. She knew how to get by on next to nothing.
pg. 21

Jeannette Walls

#6. A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

Saint John Chrysostom

#8. President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

Ben Shapiro

#9. Maybe she's not as broken as you think. Maybe she's just cracked and only needs a bit of glue to put her straight.

Jo Raven

#10. There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to "know nature" on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.

Carolyn Merchant

#11. "The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

John Zerzan

#12. 28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Epictetus

#13. There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two of us sweaty and panting, me screaming, him grunting, our primal sexual natures overprinting the tea room's pretence at gentility, and refinement.

Fiona Thrust

#14. The first time I met you, I fell in love with you there and then, but you didn't notice me. Then you stood me up. And then I met you again and I hated you. Well, I tried to hated you, but then when you cleaned up after Welly ... I fell in love with you all over again.

Alexandra Potter