Daudet Quotes & Sayings

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. — Alphonse Daudet

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious. — Peter J. Carroll

Grief is like cancer. It ebbs and flows within you. Then, it changes and transforms you. Forever. Grief. Cancer. Both force you to face your worst fear - death. Grief and cancer. Both undermine your optimism of life. You finally see the cup is really just half full, even if you believed otherwise your whole life. Both teach you to believe that bad things can happen to people, whether they're good or bad or rich or poor or young or old, alike. Grief and cancer corner the market for all. Grief and cancer take all comers. Both rule. Do they always win? I begin to wonder. — Katherine Owen

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. — Alphonse Daudet

Hate is the wrath of the weak. — Alphonse Daudet

Music is another planet. — Alphonse Daudet

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent. — Alex Rodriguez

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation ... — Alphonse Daudet

Hatred - The anger of the weak. — Alphonse Daudet

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. — Alphonse Daudet

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. — Robert MacNeil

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,
that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood. — Alphonse Daudet

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force. — Sandy Adams

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet

She had pronounced the words "New Books" with caution and regret, articulating them reluctantly, as if they were vulgar, even obscene words. As I listened to her, I realised that that it was indeed a commercial term, used to designate an item in fashion, but inappropriate to define a literary work; I also realised that to her eyes I was nothing but an author of 'New Books' a supplier in a way. "But novels by Daudet or Maupassant - weren't they 'New Books' when they came out?" I asked.

"Time has given them their place", she replied, as though I had just said something insolent. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Don't rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices. — Edward Rutherfurd

With Darkness Comes Light. — S.J. Batsford

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants. — Chuck Schumer