Atteint French Quotes & Sayings

But one salient detail did emerge: you were more likely to get help if you could ask for your helper by name. — Anonymous

Girls, where are you? I can't find you. — Alexander Ovechkin

Yes, gods could take a humanlike body, but ultimately, it was only a shell to house their true form. They were made of light, of pure energy. Humans, even those who'd become immortal through the various ways - given the gift by the gods, turned into vampires or other immortal creatures - were still made up of tangible mass. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing. — Rudyard Kipling

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas

We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. — Abhijit Naskar

Congrats, bro. You've just sold your soul to the devil. Wait. You don't have a soul. — Jayde Scott

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you — Nas

Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter. — John Pilger

We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them. — Therese De Lisieux

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone. — Madonna Ciccone

It's a funny thing to complain about, but most of America is perfectly devoid of smells. I must have noticed it before, but this last time back I felt it as an impairment. For weeks after we arrived I kept rubbing my eyes, thinking I was losing my sight or maybe my hearing. But it was the sense of smell that was gone. Even in the grocery store, surrounded in one aisle by more kinds of food than will ever be known in a Congolese lifetime, there was nothing on the air but a vague, disinfected emptiness. I mentioned this to Anatole, who'd long since taken note of it, of course. "The air is just blank in America," I said. "You can't ever smell what's around you, unless you stick your nose right down into something."
"Maybe that is why they don't know about Mobutu," he suggested. — Barbara Kingsolver

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play. — Samuel Richardson