Bienveillante Quotes & Sayings

I like people who can do things — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviae; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned? — Henry David Thoreau

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin. — Lucas Neff

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. — Pablo Picasso

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples. — Victoria Alexander

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. — Dean Smith

He would never know know her. Such intimacy but no communication, because words - even if she could speak or write them - could never explain her world to him. — Mary Balogh

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong. — William Shakespeare

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see. — Henry Grunwald

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time. — Charles Spurgeon

I supposed to hate her, right? But, instead... I saw her... stood there, in front of me, with the rain coming down on her body... and mascara running on her cheeks... her hair looked messy, and all I could think in that time was... I'd never seen anyone more beautiful than her. What should I do then? What am I supposed to do with my life from now on? — Yuli Pritania

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. — Northrop Frye

However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and a night club, and laid on lipstick with the idea that each layer was a layer of sophistication. — Monica Dickens

But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-earth right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruised bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?
Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know. — Harvey Keitel