Barthelemy Diaz Quotes & Sayings

Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed? — Christopher Brennan

When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex. — Jacques Lacan

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

We cannot rein wild horses with silken braids. — John William Kaye

Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them. — Stephen King

Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy. — Fernando Pessoa

After some years of varied experience with the bodies of the rich and the poor a man finds little to distinguish between them, bulks them as one and bases his working judgements on other matters. — William Carlos Williams

I didn't want to speak to her because I didn't want to stop feeling angry. It actually felt good and deep inside I knew it would feel bad as soon as I stopped and thought about what I was doing. I wanted more good feelings, more cleansing destruction before I had to pay the inevitable price of guilt and embarrassment. — Maria Landon

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. — James Clerk Maxwell

God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything! — Tony Robbins

Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school.
"Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?" the students asked.
"Doctors," Sophia said, "need strong stomachs and strong powers of observation." Then she opened a canister. The putrid smell quickly moved through the classroom. Sophia stuck a finger in the jar, pulled it up, and then licked it. She passed the jar around encouraging each doctor in training to do the same. Each did, and though many felt nauseas, no one got sick.
"You all have very strong stomachs," she said. "But your powers of observation need some work."
"What do you mean?" they asked. "We did just what you did."
"There is one difference," she replied. "The finger I dipped in the jar was not the finger I licked. — David W. Jones

I am a slow walker," Lincoln said. "But I never walk backwards. — Rick Pitino