Pontellier Glass Quotes

#1. [On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

Josephine De Beauharnais

#2. With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?'
[Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.'
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Dean Koontz

#3. The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

Rajneesh

#4. The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

Jeremy Coon

#5. Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

Jeff Cooper

#7. Selfishness squelches love.

Todd Stocker

#8. A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together. Can they rally to solve key problems? If the answer is yes, you are managing well.

Ed Catmull

#9. Sidney was annoyed. What business was it of anyone else? His relationship with Amanda was private. He hated the idea of anyone talking about them. Now he would have to explain something that he didn't want to explain because he liked it all being vague and inexplicable.

James Runcie

#10. Every man dies, not every man really lives" ... William Wallace

H.E. Kline

#11. Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. They'll be black because that's the way they're seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don't hold your breath.

Andrew Hacker

#13. Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

Jenny Han