Adamsberg Fred Quotes & Sayings

It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He — John Updike

Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals. — Ellen DeGeneres

7 Stay away from fools, for you won't find knowledge on their lips. 8 The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves. — Anonymous

Homecoming is a single word, and we use it to describe a single event. But true homecoming requires more time. It seems to be a process rather than a moment. Perhaps we come home the way the earth comes home to the sun. It could be that homecoming is always a return and our understanding of home deepens with each encounter. — Christie Purifoy

I am determined to do my very best. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone. — Toni Morrison

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain. — Dale Carnegie

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. — Michael Leunig

Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out. — Fulton J. Sheen

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public. — Charles Stross

In a justly ordered
universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute. — James Allen

ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds. — Fred Vargas

If you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity. — Esmeralda Santiago