Quotes About Prevost

#1. On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand - a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada.

Pierre Berton

#2. Children: a torment and nothing more.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#4. Lying gets all the recompenses, then, while despair and loneliness are the rewards of constancy and fidelity.

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#5. I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

Julia Kent

#6. If a book falls open in a library and no one sees it, is it still writing? Or is it simply a page bearing abstract markings?

Zanesh Catkin

#7. They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.

Jonathan Kellerman

#8. They aren't monsters!"
Her mother whispered, "Yes, they are.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. I have done it," says my memory. "I cannot have done it," says my pride, refusing to budge. In the end - my memory yields. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes

Jodi Picoult

#10. When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

Sun Tzu

#11. May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which now divert you from better pursuits!

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#12. The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

Jules Verne

#13. The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#14. A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Shawn Johnson

#15. It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them.

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#16. Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#18. The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value.

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#19. There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

#20. Life is a book. We fill the pages.

Victoria Valentine

#21. And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Carl Sagan

#22. Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion!

Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles