Blanc De Meudon Quotes & Sayings

Dust rained in the halls of Mechanical; it shivered free from the violence of the digging. — Hugh Howey

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself.
What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high. — Candace Bushnell

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense. — Mark Twain

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine. — Terry Pratchett

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy. — Jennifer Aniston

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power. — Kenneth Clarke

For a man must have intelligence of universals, and be able to proceed from the many particulars of sense to one conception of reason;
this is the recollection of those things which our soul once saw while following God
when regardless of that which we now call being she raised her head up towards the true being. And therefore the mind of the philosopher alone has wings; and this is just, for he is always, according to the measure of his abilities, clinging in recollection to those things in which God abides, and in beholding which He is what He is. And he who employs aright these memories is ever being initiated into perfect mysteries and alone becomes truly perfect. But, as he forgets earthly interests and is rapt in the divine, the vulgar deem him mad, and rebuke him; they do not see that he is inspired. — Plato

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us. — Huston Smith

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. — Eileen Caddy

I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny. — Moira Kelly

There was good in him. Raw, molten goodness, bubbling deep in his core. But he didn't possess the charm or manners to control it. It just erupted periodically in volcano fashion, startling anyone who happened to be nearby. — Tessa Dare

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams. — Vin Diesel

He turned away. "I don't want a lecture."
Fair enough. "What do you want?"
"Do you really want to know?"
Kat scooted a little closer but not enough to touch him. "Yes. I wouldn't ask if I didn't."
He stared straight ahead. "I want to forget. — Laurann Dohner