Blanquart Evrard Quotes & Sayings

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative programme, on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off, than on any positive task. The contrast between the "we" and the "they", the common fight against those outside the group, seems to be an essential ingredient in any creed which will solidly knit together a group for common action. It is consequently always employed by those who seek, not merely support of a policy, but the unreserved allegiance of huge masses. From their point of view it has the great advantage of leaving them greater freedom of action than almost any positive programme. — Friedrich Hayek

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that. — Charlie Hunter

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. — Rich Lowry

From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire apparatus of printing. To condense from one's memories and fantasies and small discoveries dark marks on paper which become handsomely reproducible many times over still seems to me, after nearly 30 years concerned with the making of books, a magical act, and a delightful technical process. To distribute oneself thus, as a kind of confetti shower falling upon the heads and shoulders of mankind out of bookstores and the pages of magazines is surely a great privilege and a defiance of the usual earthbound laws whereby human beings make themselves known to one another. — John Updike

Sometimes we're so busy looking at one thing, one ... person ... that we can't see anything else. Maybe - maybe it's time for you to open your eyes and look around. — Aprilynne Pike

Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that ... and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work. — Rodney Crowell

I'm in love with Tucker Avery. — Cynthia Hand

Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices. — Jen Hatmaker

There's too many interesting women I have ... not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed. — Dustin Hoffman

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. — Alan Watts

Today I trust me. I trust in my perceptions. Today I will live my own truth that glows within, a life of no deceptions. — Patricia Robin Woodruff