Citoyens Du Quotes & Sayings

It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever. — DJ Spooky

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday. — Trina

That's how religions and histories make their way into the world, not through battles and conquests, but through poems and kennings and songs, passed through generations and written down by scholars and scribes ...
After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith, start a war, change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster, topple walls, scale mountains
Hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being King of the gods, because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart. — Joanne Harris

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind. — Paul Valery

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God — Mother Teresa

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct. — Lewis Gordon

Climatologists, like other scientists, tend to be a stolid group. We are not given to theatrical rantings about falling skies. Most of us are far more comfortable in our laboratories or gathering data in the field than we are giving interviews to journalists or speaking before Congressional committees. Why then are climatologists speaking out about the dangers of global warming? The answer is that virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization."21 — Naomi Klein

The principles you know determines what you get — Sunday Adelaja

Let your failures refine you, not define you. — Max Lucado

Goddamn Homer and his idiotic story of the Sirens' song. — S.J. Harper

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. — Elton John

Pope Joan was an excellent read. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl — Lewis Carroll