Camembert Vs Brie Quotes & Sayings

Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administrations. Democratic leaders often rule through trusted retainers instead of official ministers. In any court, power is as fluid as human personality. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations. — Charles Taylor

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too. — James Agee

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two. — Jane Bryant Quinn

I am just so impossibly happy. Before you I was vacant of love. Now I am replete. Before you I lived without hope. Now I am inspired. Before you I was broken. Now I am whole."
"Lilah," I rasped, fighting a fucking lump in my throat at her words. I tapped over my heart with my fist and said, "You're in here, Li. You're fuckin' always in here. — Tillie Cole

One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo. — Dan Rosensweig

It was easier if I didn't try to believe. — Stephenie Meyer

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death. — Howard Stern

In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. — Anthony De Mello

There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods. — Andrew Holleran

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to. — Jennifer Egan

Much effort is needed for a dream to come true. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around. — Margaret Atwood

They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present. — M.J. Rose