Bretons France Quotes & Sayings

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water. — Horace Mann

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully. — Rudy Giuliani

In times like these," he would say, "everyone becomes a sort of intellectual, as matters so dire demand to be thought through. That's the glory of these times. They have woken us up. — Kim Stanley Robinson

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being. — P.D. Ouspensky

You and I more than anyone else in the universe are perfect for each other. — Karen Marie Moning

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties.
Help us to play the man,
Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces,
Let cheerfulness abound with industry.
Give us to go blithely on our business all this day,
Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured,
And grant us in the end the gift of sleep. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to. — Jeff Foxworthy

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny. — Simon Bolivar

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day. — Julianna Margulies

Rome wasn't built in one day, just like our relationship didn't happen in the blink of an eye. — Claudia Y. Burgoa