Arriver French Quotes & Sayings

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. — Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever age we are is the age we've always been. — Graydon Carter

Person of genus are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without harmful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character. If from timidity they consent to be forced into one of these moulds, and to let all that part of themselves which cannot expand under the pressure remain unexpanded, society will be little the better for their genius. — John Stuart Mill

What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility? — Julian Barnes

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc. — Emma Goldman

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice. — David Ignatius