Amontons Law Quotes & Sayings

As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor. — David Graeber

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame De Stael

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off ... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.' — Patricia MacLachlan

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. — Nadine Gordimer

She blew a warm breeze on his face and rustled his hair and embraced him in a warm haze and he felt her nonthreatening presence. She looked down and saw his face stained with tears, nobody could reach him in his grief but she could. He saw her and blew her a kiss goodbye. She flew down in a haze in a white dress with wings and whispered into his ear "please don't cry I am in a better place. Marriage was forever. Love and life was forever. My body died but my soul lives on for eternity". (Katie)
"The rain stopped suddenly and the grey sky cleared into a bright blue colour and a glowing warm orange sun appeared to show her appreciation. A perfect blue sky remained on the dark winter's day until after the ceremony and the hailstone and rain commenced again and the dark sky reappeared as the funeral car drove away — Annette J. Dunlea

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. — Frank Serafini

It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it. — Caroline Myss

The Universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention — Gary Zukav

But we own nothing they want, so we don't qualify as terrorists. — Margaret Atwood

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. — Immanuel Kant

David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone. — Carlos Alomar

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. — Walter Benjamin

Every aquarium will eventually leak. — Edward A. Murphy Jr.