Contrat Quotes & Sayings

Her horizon seemed to her limitless. There were all the places she had not seen; — Virginia Woolf

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. — Rajneesh

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey

1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different. — Frank Portman

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays. — Kim Campbell

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time. — Charles Baudelaire

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older. — Lauren Groff

Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape. — Sophie Hannah

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers. — John Green

Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat. — Chris Cleave

No man has the right to rule over another man, otherwise such a right necessarily, and immediately becomes the right of the strongest. As the tiger in the jungle rules over the defenceless antelope, so on the banks of the Nile a Pharaoh ruled over the progenitors of the fellaheen of Egypt. Nor can a group of men, by contract, from their own right, compel you to obey a fellow-man. What binding force is there for me in the allegation that ages ago one of my progenitors made a 'Contrat Social,' with other men of that time? As man I stand free and bold, over against the most powerful of my fellow-men. I do not speak of the family, for here organic, natural ties rule; but in the sphere of the State I do not yield or bow down to anyone, who is man, as I am. — Abraham Kuyper

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. — James Dickey

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire - and it would come to absolutely the same thing. — Albert Camus

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted. — Aminatta Forna

But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to the reason and understanding of man, concerning things deeply affecting his relations to his sovereign, and essential to the formation of his character and of course to his destiny, both for this life and for the life. — Simon Greenleaf