A La Folie Quotes & Sayings

In your mindfulness practice, notice how often, without thinking, you try to manipulate, control, or exploit others - sometimes in tiny and apparently unimportant ways. — Karen Armstrong

So much hate and depression is making me feel sick, although that could also be attributed to the Pringles that I sandwiched between two Oreos. — Melina Marchetta

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail. — Dan Fogelberg

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! — Marie Corelli

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other? — David Edward

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. — Paul Theroux

Forming good values and beliefs comes by determining what they should be and then building them inside of you — Sunday Adelaja

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger. — Jason Calacanis

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy. — Philippa Gregory

I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too. — John Seabrook

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. — Jackie French Koller

Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis. — Mary Jo Bang

Listen more.
Learn more.
Love more.
Live more. — Matshona Dhliwayo

if you really want it, you'll keep at it. Despite setbacks, interruptions, and sidetracks. No matter how long you get off course, you'll eventually return - if you really want what you say you do. — M.J. Ryan

Working with Robert Redford would be an unbelievable dream come true. — Jonathan Keltz

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I remember you. You were like burning firelight in that cave, all shimmery, dancing color." I lean closer over the island, mesmerized by his words, his hand on my face. If he keeps talking this way, he's going to see me like that again. "Tell me you thought about me. That you think about me now."
"I thought about you," I whisper, "I've never stopped thinking about you." Somehow I doubt I ever will. — Sophie Jordan