Deoudes Quotes & Sayings

None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy. — Ian McEwan

We can have little faith in the youth who is always crying out against his condition, and telling an incredulous world what great things he could do if his lot were different. — Orison Swett Marden

We should never become so enamored with the future that we forget the value of the past.

Alyssa Rosenberg — D.S. Cahr

Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman. — Sylvia Kristel

I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you. — Elvia Alvarado

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable. — Martin Amis

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way. — Harmony Korine

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. — Jodi Picoult

Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts. — Ilana Mercer

Put black on white. — Guy De Maupassant

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. — Jacob Braude

Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders. — John Adair