Cartignies 59 Quotes & Sayings

People prefer to get what they want rather than what they deserve. — Julian Barnes

This is why classical thought concerning structure could say that the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it. The center is at the center of the totality, and yet, since the center does not belong to the totality (is not part of the totality), the totality has its center elsewhere. The center is not the center. — Mark Z. Danielewski

We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs — Robert Bourassa

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. — Leon Kass

Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more "first girl babies" were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book. — Michael Scheuer

My mother is a wonderful, eccentric lady who has no concept whatever of interior monologue. We'll be driving along in the car and she'll suddenly say, 'Ants don't like cucumbers, you know. And roaches don't like cinnamon. Do you want some cheese, Michael? Rembrandt was the Lord of the day.'
-Mike Myers — Mitchell Symons

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge. — Richard Pascale

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people. — Lucien Bourjeily

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable. — John Pipkin

I believe things are meant to be. It's the only way I can explain it because I had auditioned before to get on 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent,' and I didn't get through - it was literally, 'No!' — Rebecca Ferguson

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy. — Shelley Long

Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be. — T Bone Burnett

Close your eyes," he orders.
"Why?"
"Because I said to."
I close my eyes. — J. Kenner

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain. — Jean De La Bruyere