Alienor Sauvage Quotes & Sayings

Mr Dibbler can even sell sausages to people that have bought them off him before ... And a man who could sell Mr Dibbler's sausages twice could sell anything — Terry Pratchett

Great leaders are comfortable with conflict....not because we enjoy it, but because we are eager to get beyond it. — Lana Krumwiede

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

letter. She read it first and then handed it to Anna. "Look at this one." Man of 6' height, 200lbs, seeking young, energetic woman, early twenties, please. Needs to care for home, myself, and willing to start a family right away. I have land, stand to inherit $20,000. It was a short letter. Very short. Anna turned page over and back again. "That's it?" "Sometimes that's it, — Claire Charlins

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about. — Tiffany King

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something. — Tucker Carlson

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness. — Susan Glaspell

[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library or other, and treats in heathenish fashion people at whose feet he ought to sit, and the most ignorant of whom could give points to much wiser men than he.
Authors bear this sort of thing with a magnanimity and a patience that are really incomprehensible. For, after all, who are those critics, who with their trenchant tone, their dicta, might be supposed sons of the gods? They are simply fellows who were at college with us, and who have turned their studies to less account, since they have not produced anything, and can do no more than soil and spoil the works of others, like true stymphalid vampires. — Theophile Gautier

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. — John Philip Sousa

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better. — Tony Robbins

The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists could make their profits from the human labor that always lies behind the machines. That contradicts other facets of development, especially viewed from the standpoint of those who suffered and still suffer to make capitalist achievements possible. This latter group are the majority of mankind. To advance, they must overthrow capitalism; and that is why at the moment capitalism stands in the path of further human social development. To put it another way, the social (class) relations of capitalism are now outmoded, just as slave and feudal relations became outmoded in their time. — Walter Rodney

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion. — Victor J. Stenger

When asked why they quit, the lapsed dieters cited complexity as the single most important reason for giving up. Simplicity is even more important when people are tired, stressed, or otherwise cognitively impaired. — Donald Sull

Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? — George Carlin