Chateaus Quotes & Sayings

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. — Ban Ki-moon

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist. — Milan Kundera

Substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one — Alexander McCall Smith

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. — Peter Matthiessen

I have a big heart and a small brain. — Ville Valo

This has to be the disease for you
Now scientists call this disease
Bromidrosis
But us regular folks
Who might wear tennis shoes
Or an occasional python boot
Know this exquisite little inconvenience
By the name of:
Stink Foot — Frank Zappa

From far away, on a clear day, she saw how all those mighty mansions were only temporary delusions, and how fashion would march on, and the chateaus and palazzos of American merchants would fall to the wrecking ball so that department stores might rise above. — Anna Godbersen

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them. — Mary Miller

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people. — Michelle Bachelet

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands ... — Pablo Neruda

In my plain thoughts I don't know what else is needed to make this the happiest as well as the most respect-worthy situation in the world - except
for a taste for literature, to throw a little variety and interest into conversation, and some surplus money to give to the needy and to buy books ... — Mary Wollstonecraft

I've been fully instructed. I'm to hold you if you cry and rub some salve into your butt so it doesn't sting anymore. I am not to play with your boobs."
Jack sent his brother a stern look.
"Or anything else," Lucas concluded with a gulp. "I can pat your back and try really hard not to get an erection. — Sophie Oak

Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf. — Rajneesh

The morning comes to consciousness — T. S. Eliot

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys. — Confucius