Volodine Quotes

#1. One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Jean Rostand

#2. I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Jack London

#3. Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Charlotte Mason

#4. Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that ... everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.

Theodore Dalrymple

#5. Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand ... Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

Janel Moloney

#7. No one actively wishes to change a circumstances which is pleasant, comfortable, and rewarding, my dear; but in the end, change is inevitable. It will come.

Syrie James

#8. The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

John C. Maxwell

#9. I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

Lynda Barry

#10. Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

Antoine Volodine

#11. The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all ... If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.

Arthur Tappan Pierson