Raconter Quotes

#1. By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

Pierre Corneille

#2. But this is what I've learned the hard way: what people think about you means nothing in comparison to what you believe about yourself.

Shauna Niequist

#3. If everyone's purpose of life is to be happy, kind, caring, and compassionate, this world will become heaven.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The world around you is not equipped to provide the help you need to make it through this often treacherous journey.

Thomas S. Monson

#5. Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton

#7. What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

Laura Kinsale

#8. I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Robert Caro

#9. All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Edward Gibbon

#10. Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

Lauren Hammond

#11. He smiled his barbarian's smile. "Keep looking at me like that, Emmie love, and I will be bothering you again in a trice.

Grace Burrowes

#12. Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

W. H. Auden

#13. Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

Albert Schweitzer

#14. I'm just going to tour; that's the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.

Gin Wigmore

#15. When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

Tunde Adebimpe

#16. President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

Lew Wasserman