Chaire De Poule Quotes & Sayings

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. — Frank Herbert

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature ... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe. — Edwin Muir

To hell with a fan when the wind is blowing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help. — Harvey Milk

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. — Bob Dylan

The leader is the one individual within the organization that is never, ever totally disconnected from those he leads - and the leader who complains about that is not qualified to lead. — R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Our mother, in several beautiful ways, may have been a little crazy. For example: who dries their clothing with a hurricane coming? Like Ossie, Mom got distracted easily. It was seventy-thirty odds whether she would remember a conversation with you. Her moods could do sudden plummets, and she'd have to "take a rest" in the house, but she'd always emerge from these spells with a smile for us. — Karen Russell

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing — Bill Wyman

One evil begets another and another. — Bronwen Griffiths

I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways. — Garth Stein

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. — John Churton Collins

We're a rough people, born of oak, as they say, here in the western land; tempers run high, weapons are always at hand. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience. — David Allen

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson. — Bruce Catton