Pierre Beauchamp Quotes

#1. There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Tom Watson

#2. The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

Gaston Bachelard

#3. The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Larry Niven

#4. There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

David Mitchell

#5. They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

Erik Spiekermann

#6. I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society ... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#7. Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Colin Powell

#8. Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

Saadi

#9. The rain feels so good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay awhile longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since I last wept.

George R R Martin

#10. There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#11. Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Michael Chabon

#12. World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.

William O. Douglas