Comptines Maternelle Quotes & Sayings

You like doing certain tasks, you might be good at doing them. The question is, should you BE doing them, as the business owner?!! — Chris C. Ducker

Her head jerked around. "It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise moment, you'd think it would never happen." She stood looking at a painting with a hand to her cheek, then watched the cat making its way across the sofa toward the bird. "Life, it's so unlikely," she said, then turned to me again. "It's so much better than we think, isn't it? — Andrew Sean Greer

Our modern world defined God as a 'religious complex' and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world - no longer laughing - cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together. They are not laws - they are The Law. — Cecil B. DeMille

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project. — Ato Essandoh

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest. — Shannon Miller

If you observe well, your own heart will answer. — R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes. — David F. Wells

The picaresque path can probably also be a metaphor for the passage of the soul back to its creator. The thieves along the way
the thieves of money, of love, of magic, of time
are merely human obstacles to keep the traveller from perceiving that she herself is the path.
The path is as steep and as precipitous as we make it, as level and rolling as we can grade it, as steady as we are steady, as passable or impassable as our own will to pass.
In a true picaresque, the hero stops struggling and becomes the path.
At fifty, we need this knowledge most of all. — Erica Jong

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom! — Agatha Christie

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me. — Jimmy Scott

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes. — Stephen Furst

Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron. — Mary Trainor-Brigham

I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them. — John Schneider