Comp Tences Personnelles Quotes & Sayings

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. — Trieu Thi Choi

What men have seen they know ... — Sophocles

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home! — Kurt Vonnegut

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself. — Robertson Davies

In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some sort which occurs shortly after the Sy breakthrough. It has something to do with the discovery of the self and the incapacity to deal with it, the consciousness becoming self-conscious but not knowing what to do with the self, not even knowing what its self is, and so ending by being that which is not, and making others what they are not. — Walker Percy

My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that. — Ramona Koval

The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it. — Sandra Day O'Connor

No matter what, you shall have a reason for action because of whom and what is closer to you and where you find yourself. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned. — Franz Kafka

I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much. — Patrik Sinkewitz

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply. — Kelly Miller

It's impossible to not believe in God when you see all the good in the world. — Karina Halle

Walking to the door, I stare into Johnny Depp's eyes and my gut sinks. "I'm sorry. You've been a good imaginary boyfriend, but I'm a grown-up now. There's no room in my life for a boyfriend. Not even an imaginary one." But he just stares at me. "Don't look at me like that." But he does. He's torturing me.
I sigh tiredly and rub at my forehead. "Don't make this any harder than it has to be. Please, Johnny. It's over." I'm getting a headache. I take my time pulling him down with the utmost care, rolling him up and putting a rubber band around him. I hold him in my hands and walk him over to the recycling bin. I lift the lid and put him in. I slowly close the lid and turn around. — Belle Aurora