Conjuguer Pouvoir Quotes & Sayings

Life is about feeling. Touches on your skin, both passionate and icy. Anything other than normal, the average, the lukewarm. — Tony Brady

There is nothing new about prophecies to the effect that the end of the world is near if we do not repent. What is new is that such a prophecy is now true, for two obvious reasons. First, nuclear weapons give us the means to wipe ourselves out quickly: no humans possessed this means before. Second, we already appropriate about forty per cent of the Earth's net productivity (that is, the net energy captured from sunlight). With the world's human population now doubling every forty-one years, we will soon have reached the biological limit to growth, at which point we will have to start fighting each other in deadly earnest for a slice of the world's fixed pie of resources. In addition, given the present rate at which we are exterminating species, most of the world's species will become extinct or endangered within the next century, but we depend on many species for our own life support. — Jared Diamond

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void. — Chanakya

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens. — Thornton Wilder

The heart is the mainspring. — Smith Wigglesworth

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure. — Neale Donald Walsch

I stop, because a little piece of me can't help hoping. I turn to look at him, and know, to my shame, that he could break my resolve with a single word. — Cristin Terrill

The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally. — Harry Treadaway

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless. — Dean Frazer

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong. — Marcus Giles

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester. — Peter DeLuise

It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

I am at war with the obvious. — William Eggleston