Quesnay France Quotes

#1. In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

Simon May

#3. My novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end ...

John Geddes

#4. Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

Scott Lynch

#5. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late.

Haruki Murakami

#6. You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

Paul Washer

#7. I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.

Sylvia Plath

#8. The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust,

Martin Heidegger

#9. If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

George Saunders

#10. The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

Evelyn Underhill

#11. The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

John Gierach

#12. Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

Richard Briers

#13. The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac D'Israeli

#14. Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

George Santayana