Roger De Rabutin Quotes

#1. God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy

#2. It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

Sophocles

#3. The days with the baby felt long but there was nothing expansive about them. Caring for her required me to repeat a series of tasks that had the peculiar quality of seeming both urgent and tedious. They cut the day up into little scraps.

Jenny Offill

#4. As long as I stay honest with myself and just do the work that I am willing to do, and have been willing to do and am doing,

Lindsay Lohan

#5. Theater helps people keep sane.

Vanessa Redgrave

#6. You are not in business to be popular.

Kirstie Alley

#7. I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#8. Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.

C.P. Cavafy

#9. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

Roger De Rabutin De Bussy

#10. As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

Roger De Rabutin

#11. Prick the bubble of thought at any point," it was said, "and you shatter the whole of it. And since thought is one of the necessities of human life, it must be preserved." Natural

Olaf Stapledon

#12. It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Paul Prudhomme

#13. We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy

#14. Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

#15. Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

W. D. Richter

#16. As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy

#17. People love to be told what they know already.

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy

#19. It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

Navi Rawat

#20. Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Lady Violet