FastSaying

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.


Pierre Loti

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at m...
CLARA SCHUMANN In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fa...
GEORGE SHEEHAN While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothi...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whol...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON "as i look back...over my life...i am struck by post cards...ruined snapshots...faded posters...of a...
JIM MORRISON This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF A good leader does not sit down and wait for results, that's a boss. A leader will share the pain,sw...
LEONARDO SANABRIA Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation,...
HENRY MARTYN I am stable when my private life is a success.
DON JOHNSON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he...
YITZHAK RABIN ...Why haven’t we had sex in six days?”

“Because you have a bullet wound.”
<...
LORELEI JAMES I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my de...
CONRAD VEIDT When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that t...
NICK RAHALL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
KENNETH REXROTH Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succee...
JEAN CHRETIEN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER after I die I wish to become a breeze to be able to touch your smile, kiss your eyelashes and play w...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST

More Pierre Loti

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was ...
PIERRE LOTI But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama bu...
PIERRE LOTI Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creation...
PIERRE LOTI Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recogn...
PIERRE LOTI I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall J...
PIERRE LOTI My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and picture...
PIERRE LOTI I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life ...
PIERRE LOTI It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous...
PIERRE LOTI It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great l...
PIERRE LOTI The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the mi...
PIERRE LOTI Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful rampar...
PIERRE LOTI I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my d...
PIERRE LOTI I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the ...
PIERRE LOTI Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and wom...
PIERRE LOTI What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
PIERRE My family background was deeply Christian.
ABBE PIERRE It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative ...
ABBE PIERRE Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...
PIERRE TRUDEAU To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
ABBE PIERRE I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
ABBE PIERRE Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
ABBE PIERRE Hope is not a matter of age.
ABBE PIERRE People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a ...
ABBE PIERRE This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORNEILLE What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inev...
PIERRE LAVAL Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of bor...
PIERRE OMIDYAR People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side...
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Brave men are brave from the very first.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwh...
PIERRE CONEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfai...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
PIERRE CHARRON Peace is produced by war.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON Happiness seems made to be shared.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
PIERRE CHARRON A liar is full of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
PIERRE CONEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
PIERRE BONNARD We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
PIERRE CORNEILLE To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
PIERRE CONEILLE It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our frien...
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest...
PIERRE CERESOLE If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, ...
PIERRE GALLOIS It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it...
PIERRE CHARRON The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influe...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
PIERRE BONNARD The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
PIERRE BONNARD After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and ...
PIERRE NINEY We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
PIERRE BOURDIEU He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and...
PIERRE BAYLE Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, inso...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
PIERRE BONNARD The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.
YVONNE PIERRE Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once ...
YVONNE PIERRE At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it...
DANIELLE PIERRE The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, w...
ABBE PIERRE The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
PIERRE BAYLE True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest c...
ABBE PIERRE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Euro...
PIERRE LAVAL In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basical...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they sho...
ABBE PIERRE Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
YVONNE PIERRE It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the...
YVONNE PIERRE God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a co...
YVONNE PIERRE I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.
PIERRE DUKAN My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
PIERRE TRUDEAU Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
PIERRE BAYLE The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is n...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
PIERRE CORNEILLE We need some big guards.
BUTCH PIERRE We knew what he could be, but he kind of got out of town on us and people saw him.
BUTCH PIERRE That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.
BUTCH PIERRE It's basically Louisiana kids. If you can sign the top two or three Louisiana kids every year, you s...
BUTCH PIERRE It's a family type thing.
BUTCH PIERRE As soon as he crosses mid-court, he's a threat to put one up.
BUTCH PIERRE He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign ...
PIERRE SALINGER I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Ambition aspires to descend.
PIERRE CORNEILLE There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
PIERRE DUKAN By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les sou...
PIERRE CORNEILLE I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! ...
PIERRE CORNEILLE The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORRIELLE When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
PIERRE CHARRON The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
PIERRE TRUDEAU The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing thei...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, le...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are base...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Love is a tyrant sparing none.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais...
PIERRE CORNEILLE We ask them to think outside the box when they are nominating. It may be the quiet, shy girl no one ...
CHéRI PIERRE Show your children tolerance, humility, respect, honesty, and curiosity towards the universe they ar...
PIERRE MOUELHI Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with.
PIERRE MOUELHI Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the popul...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaint...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50...
PIERRE DUKAN He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
PIERRE BOULEZ A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Les gens ne connaissent pas leur bonheur... mais celui des autres ne leur échappe pas
PIERRE DANINOS Who pardons easily invites offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
PIERRE BONNARD One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions.
PIERRE BONNARD Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
PIERRE BOURDIEU The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
PIERRE TRUDEAU The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to corre...
PIERRE BOULEZ There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generati...
PIERRE BAYLE The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU It is still color, it is not yet light.
PIERRE BONNARD There's always some further action to take.
PIERRE BOULLE I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace wit...
PIERRE LAVAL A liar is always lavish of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Creativity is to think more efficiently
PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
PIERRE LAPLACE By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction
PIERRE PACHET If it was an elective, you'd get twenty girls and three boys doing ballroom dancing. Girls want to d...
PIERRE DULAINE The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE