Choeurs Denfants Quotes & Sayings

Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power. — Porochista Khakpour

The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it. — Donald Rumsfeld

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up. — Jodie Foster

Ow."
"You had a mosquito."
"No, I didn't. — Michelle Hodkin

The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall. — Boris Yeltsin

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You can choose to be mad in a negative
way where it fuels you to do
mean, hateful things, or you can let
your madness fuel your art and
channel it in a positive way. — Allie Gonino

Eventually, the sun will rise, I'll have to bleed with my butterfly brothers, and the rest of the world will get to see my blue ink, not just you. But here's the thing," he says. "I may bleed every single day for the world, but I bleed the most for you. — Nikki Godwin

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history. — William J. Clinton

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us. — Henry David Thoreau

The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require
that force should be interposed to a certain degree. — Thomas Jefferson

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly. — Lauren Weisberger

There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. — Hazel Henderson