Vautrin Construction Quotes

#1. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

Richard Paul Evans

#3. There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth. 'It will have to be paid for,' they said. 'It isn't natural, and trouble will come of it!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. You dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom
hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!

Thomas Hardy

#5. Remember that the old lady who's taking forever in line is someone's grandma

Eric Stonestreet

#6. Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#7. Long you must suffer, knowing not what,
until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.
Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked.

Sue Grafton

#9. Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

Yo-Yo Ma

#10. Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#12. There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain.

Gus O'Donnell