Top 10 Plaisant Quotes
#1. Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#2. But I still fear I'll break him, and that boy is too damn sweet and beautiful to ruin.
Jessica Sorensen
#3. We are so divided, and we recognize that we're divided, that we're looking for ways to come together.
Frank Luntz
#4. The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.
Frank Herbert
#5. After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
Tony Judt
#6. The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this
the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Walter Raleigh
#8. The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. Because passion, like crime, does not like everyday order and well-being and every slight undoing of the bourgeois system, every confusion and infestation of the world is welcome to it, because it can unconditionally expect to find its advantage in it.
Thomas Mann
#10. I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.
Henry Giroux
