Alexandre Vauthier Quotes & Sayings

Besides, his father and uncles were old, and the old lords were like that; they took their dusty feuds to the grave, forgetting nothing and forgiving less. — George R R Martin

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I'm alive and capable of love, and love is a fucking river. It's never ending and it flows through us, all around us, keeps us alive and decadent, fierce from struggle and genuine in our vulnerability. I — Daniel Jose Older

Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten years old, or fourteen, and one Friday morning at 9:35 something happens to them, something private, something that breaks their heart. Forever. — Michel Faber

There is no song to your singing. — Carl Sandburg

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. — Lionel Shriver

Our eyes meet and the rest of the world melts away. — H.M. Ward

Either you 'are' in your mind, or you are where you are. Fully present. — Matthew Donnelly

In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature. — Radclyffe Hall

The difference between the modern laws and those of the past is that wisdom is no longer a respected requirement and it has become secondary in importance to bureaucratic procedure. — Gwendolyn Taunton

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on. — Richard Rohr

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance. — Thomas Hobbes

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books. — Paul Theroux

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools. — Stephen Covey