Benigne Poissenot Quotes & Sayings

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly. — Janis Joplin

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable. — Khaled Hosseini

Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a — L.M. Montgomery

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something. — Stephen King

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass

You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward. — Ndamukong Suh

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. — Mark Twain

When passions rise may reason be the guide. — Jennie Holton Fant

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom. — Meryl Davis

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear. — Dweezil Zappa

In preparing the psychological attack on a city, Genghis Khan began with two examples of what awaited the people. He offered generous terms of surrender to the outlying communities, and the ones that accepted the terms and joined the Mongols received great leniency. In the words of the Persian chronicler, "whoever yields and submits to them is safe and free from the terror and disgrace of their severity." Those that refused received exceptionally harsh treatment, as the Mongols herded the captives before them to be used as cannon fodder in the next attack. — Jack Weatherford