Buisson Quotes & Sayings

Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds-in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didn't know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet. — Jan Chozen Bays

Who said anything about panicking?' snapped Arthur. 'This is still just the culture shock. You wait till I've settled down into the situation and found my bearings. Then I'll start panicking! — Douglas Adams

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working. — Ferdinand Buisson

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases. — Ferdinand Buisson

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war. — Alexander H. Stephens

Sometimes it's easier to attack the spouse than it is to attack the politician. — Cherie Blair

Drop everithing and read. — Emma Roberts

Her face was upside down, but he could still make out her expression, and it filled him with a pang of curiosity. It was so long since he had seen such an expression that it took a while for him to recognize it as pity. Yes, it was true pity, without superiority or disdain. Just pain felt for pain. How strange it looked! — Frances Hardinge

They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead - ghosts risen from their graves - not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As — Joe Hill

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. — Ferdinand Buisson

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress. — Ferdinand Buisson

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH! — Sherri Bridges Fox

The store that was Agloe no longer stands. But I believe that if we were to put it back on our maps, someone would eventually rebuild it. — John Green

As an author, I'd rather by read than rich — K.B. Stevens