Bracquemond Quotes & Sayings

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. — E.W. Howe

There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation. — Sunday Adelaja

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber

Two nights later, she was out with some work friends at a blue-plate hipster joint near the L train when she spotted Doug. He had a heavy beard and wore overalls. She liked his eyes, the way they crinkled when he smiled. When he came up to the bar for another pitcher, she struck up a conversation. He told her he was a writer who avoided writing by hosting elaborate dinner parties. His apartment was full of obscure food prep machinery, vintage pasta rollers and a three-hundred-pound cappuccino machine he'd rebuilt screw by screw. — Noah Hawley

To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country — Rabindranath Tagore

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. — Ann Leckie

And during the day, to prevent stress from building up - which makes it harder to fall asleep at night - every few hours take sixty seconds of recovery time the way top tennis players introduce tiny slots of recovery rituals into their game. All you have to do is stop what you are doing, and simply bring your awareness to the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, or both. Let it stay there for a minute, and feel all tension leaving your body, drifting away from you through your hands and feet. — Arianna Huffington

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines. — Irving Berlin

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. — Ferdinand De Saussure

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic — Susan Jeffers