Danseurs Dessin Quotes & Sayings

Disputes with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, entirely disingenuous, who really do not believe the opinions they defend, but engage in the controversy, from affectation, from a spirit of opposition, or from a desire of showing wit and ingenuity, superior to the rest of mankind. The same blind adherence to their own arguments is to be expected in both; the same contempt of their antagonists; and the same passionate vehemence, in enforcing sophistry and falsehood. And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks not to the affections, will ever engage him to embrace sounder principles. — David Hume

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is not a single person who cannot easily reach the highest degree of perfection by performing every duty, no matter how commonplace, with eager love. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove. — Katherine Applegate

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own — Winston Churchill

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on. — Josephine Baker

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last. — Bill Gurley

I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me. — Trinny Woodall