Sorel Quotes

#1. Chekyns upon soppes" (basically chicken on cinnamon toast) from the 1545 early Tudor cookbook A Propre Newe Booke of Cokerye: Chekyns upon soppes. Take sorel sauce a good quantitie and put in Sinamon and suger and lette it boyle and poure it upon the soppes then laie on the chekyns.

Dan Jurafsky

#2. Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: "The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe." Sorel

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Francis Parkman

#4. I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

Benito Mussolini

#5. He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Melina Marchetta

#6. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

#7. God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

Arthur Guiterman

#8. Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Jim Butcher

#9. Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and in measure.....Therefore, whatever the old doctors may say, to employ oneself at all this is to be a Philosopher and a Mathematician.

Charles Sorel

#10. If youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

#11. What you told me was that the love of beauty is like a sickness, as all the devouring love inside a person. I stood there right in front of you and ate one of the crayons you had handed me. For when you love you do not care.

Charlotte Sorel

#12. Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.

Stendhal

#13. He couldn't be bothered to work out the acceleration of free-falling bodies that gained weight with each meter, but down the length of the spoke he was pretty sure they all ended in splat.

Peter Watts

#14. Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

Georges Sorel

#15. Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said.
"Don't be ridiculous.

Cassandra Clare

#16. There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

Albert Sorel

#17. There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!

Albert Sorel

#18. Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.

Nalini Singh

#19. For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.

George Sorel

#20. I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Mary MacLane

#21. I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

Alison Pill

#22. When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

S.M. White

#23. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.

Stendhal