Souvestre Quotes

#1. When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.

Kevin DeYoung

#2. Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Emile Souvestre

#3. Why must there always be a price to pay for every indulgence, and why must it so often be withdrawn from the bankrupt accounts of the innocent?

Andrew Levkoff

#4. The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Emile Souvestre

#5. Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Joe Queenan

#6. My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#7. As humans, we don't know what we should do. We don't have those instincts like God has given animals. We have to see to know where we are going. It is just a natural human emotion to look for people to emulate.

Tony Dungy

#8. Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.

Emile Souvestre

#9. Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when niggas call i just don not pick up the phone.

Wiz Khalifa

#10. I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.

Kacey Musgraves

#11. Women speak in the superlative.

Emile Souvestre

#12. Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. Do you no' want to fight the lass?" Rob, his cousin had shouted. He was dark-haired, but not quite as dark as Marcus, a little taller, with swimming blue eyes.
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"Nay," he said, his voice throaty and dark. "The lass is made for loving, no' fighting. I prefer to watch.

Terry Spear

#14. You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

Bertrand Russell

#15. You lie like one of us.

Alan Bradley

#16. Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

Pat Robertson

#17. Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#18. Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

Emile Souvestre

#19. If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

J. Vernon McGee

#20. I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

Payne Stewart