Backhouse Pico Quotes & Sayings

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway,

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world. — Jane Smiley

Don't naively assume that negative influences have no impact on you, they do. — Mensah Oteh

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down. — Ezra Klein

So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve human intention. — Marilynne Robinson

His silence he has indicated that he is willing. He hasn't the strength any more, the excess vitality, for an affair - its danger, its demand performances, the secrecy added like a filigree to your normal life, your gnawing preoccupation with it and with the constant threat of its being discovered and ended. — John Updike

He crouched at the care window and looked in. "What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one." His finger jabbed the glass. "That one's a bit ugly."
The American stepped towards him. "What? What did you say?"
"Oh, don't worry. I'm sure his personality makes up for his face. — Derek Landy

On Fiction:
(Martin) had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heaven-sent dreams and divine possibilities. Both god and clod schools erred, in Martin's estimation, and erred though too great singleness of sight and purpose. There was a compromise that approximated the truth, though it flattered not the school of god, while it challenged the brute-savageness of the school of clod. It was his story, "Adventure," which had dragged Ruth, that Martin believed had achieved his ideal of the true in fiction; and it was in an essay, "God and Clod," that he had expressed his views on the whole subject. — Jack London

Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good. — Stephen Covey

I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Truth has only two sides, but it's the third side that's best. — Eugene Ionesco

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad. — Edward Young

It was really hard to find another project after my first film. — Guillaume Canet