Bourget Quotes & Sayings

Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond. — Ernst Junger

Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day. — Paul Bourget

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. — Paul Bourget

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. — Paul Bourget

Projections' - attempts to blame all and sundry for my own past folly - will be found of no avail, and we must learn to withdraw them. None other is to blame for our body, home or circumstance, our friends and enemies, our job and place in the world. We made it all; let us accept and use and better it. — Christmas Humphreys

Ewan was maladroit when it came to anything practical or mechanical. Still, he learned how to crank the car to start it, then hustle back to the driver's seat very quickly to keep the motor from dying. His family grew accustomed to lurches when he tried to get the car moving forward without killing the motor. Like many other drivers at that time, he had trouble remembering that the car was not a horse, and if he needed to stop quickly, his first impulse was always to yank backwards on the steering wheel, as if he were holding the horse's reins, and yell "Whoa! Whoa!" Some found this endearing, others found it funny, but his young sons found it very embarrassing. — Mary Henley Rubio

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off. — Tony Gilroy

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K. — Charles Lindbergh

A recent canvass of professional philosophers found the percentage of respondents who "accept or leans toward" various positions. On normative ethics, the results were deontology 25.9%; consequentialism 23.6%; virtue ethics 18.2%. On metaethics, results were moral realism 56.4%; moral anti-realism 27.7%. On moral judgment: cognitivism 65.7%; non-cognitivism 17.0% (Bourget and Chalmers 2009). — Nick Bostrom

My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service. — Hermann Eilts

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived. — Paul Bourget

The forests have taught man liberty. — Paul Bourget

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. — Franz Kafka

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness. — Paul Bourget

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I
had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy
for those who have triumphed in the melancholy
struggle for literary supremacy — Paul Bourget

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives? — Paul Bourget

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there. — Paul Bourget

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget

May ya have the hindsight ta know where you've been, the foresight ta know where where you're going, and the insight ta know when you're going too far... — Shirley Bourget

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love. — Paul Bourget

If you don't believe in yourself ! then no one else will ! — Tom Evans

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful. — Paul Bourget

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's
youthful ideals. — Paul Bourget

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. — Paul Bourget

Let's always do good deeds everyday. — Seicho Taniguchi

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. — Paul Bourget

Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever. — Shirley Bourget

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one. — Paul Bourget

Night climbs its long underground staircase.
It recalls what it has to tell us. — Karen Solie

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
tone in which they are uttered. — Paul Bourget

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. — Paul Bourget

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. — Paul Bourget