Retrouvailles Quebec Quotes

#1. I felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet.

Fran Macilvey

#2. From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

Franz Kafka

#3. I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.

Wilfred Thesiger

#4. Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly.
She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart
full of adrenaline inside a chest.

V.S. Atbay

#5. Maybe what I liked most about dancing is the rules. In a world where anything goes, here are solid arbitrary rules.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses

Jerry Bridges

#7. It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Maggie Smith

#8. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus

#9. I want to be able to twitch my nose like that so I can clean my house! I have four children. I have been praying for that gift, but I haven't gotten it yet.

Silver RavenWolf

#10. Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

Billy Sunday