Bresson Director Quotes & Sayings

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex. — Annie Sprinkle

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades. — Stanley A. McChrystal

The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss. — Elisabeth Eaves

In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control. — Richard Rohr

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't. — Byron Katie

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. — Eric Liu

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose. — Diane Ladd

What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself. — Friedrich Engels

As its campfires glow against the dark, every culture tells stories to itself about how the gods lit up the morning sky and set the wheel of being into motion. The great scientific culture of the West
our culture
is no exception. The calculus is the story this world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski