Attentif Comme Quotes & Sayings

It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws. — Irvine Welsh

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. — Confucius

Beauty
Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic.
If, after several
Applications, you do not find
Relief, consult your family physician — Robert Penn Warren

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken. — E. Lockhart

Well, a lot's happened since I last showered. — Nicki Elson

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool. — Nita Leland

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination. — Carl Jung

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened. — Asif Ali Zardari

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets - Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included - breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. ...
Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature?
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I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild.
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The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the Nile, and the Rhine having yielded their crop, it remains to be seen what the valleys of the Amazon, the Plate, the Orinoco, the St. Lawrence, and the Mississippi will produce. — Henry David Thoreau

Finally, his eyes locked on hers, and she gave him a huge, teary-eyed smile. She couldn't tell if he counted because his lips were stretched around the appliance that had kept him breathing. Be in there, Blake. Please. Please, God. — Debra Anastasia

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves. — David I. Rozenberg

I am optimistic that things will fall into place, and one day I'll be sitting in New York City with correct bus fare in my pocket. — David Sedaris

What was he going to say? He doubted she'd want to hear about his favorite topic-which swords were best suited for different situations. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Even if she loved him with all her heart, it would still be the love of a dead woman. — Jean-Paul Sartre

True freedom has to do with the human spirit - it is the freedom to be who we really are. — Miguel Ruiz