Prendre French Quotes

#1. Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Jean Rostand

#2. I love to see your eyes sparkle like they do when you get all feisty. The flush in your cheeks." His voice lowered. "The way you draw in a deep breath and it pushes your tits out so beautifully. You're incredibly sexy when you're mad.

Sibylla Matilde

#3. What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Dayananda Saraswati

#4. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

Ellen Goodman

#5. I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night.
Conrad

Jenny Han

#6. I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it.

T.H. White

#7. Is management candid with the shareholders?

Warren Buffett

#8. I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

Rory Stewart

#9. I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

Jehane Noujaim

#10. If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no Islamic State now.

Gwynne Dyer

#11. The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Paul Ryan

#12. Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

Neal Shusterman

#13. Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

Isaac Pitman

#14. The Hedonic Treadmill By failing to anticipate the extent of our hedonic adaptation, as consumers we routinely escalate our purchases, hoping that new stuff will make us happier.

Dan Ariely