Desproges Pierre Quotes & Sayings

All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress. — Dan Webster

All of you shows and is multiplied in everything you do, so know yourself and take care of yourself first, so you can live on purpose and contribute from a place of abundance and overflow. — Anton Uhl

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him. — Arsene Wenger

I wasn't sad after my father kissed the streetcar. If anything, it was a relief. Much as I missed him, his dying gave me an excuse to feel the way I already felt. Which was the way I felt right now, under the laundry room fluorescents: hollow, pissed off, wanting to be wherever I wasn't. Until I got there. Then I wanted to be somewhere else. — Jerry Stahl

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy. — John Christopher

The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally. — Warren Spector

All the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour. — Anthony Doerr

There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea, — Rachel Cohn

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. — Dalai Lama XIV

Life is like a game if you fail try again until you master and accomplish, but remember if you accomplish it glorify God who created you and gives you strength. — Daniel Habil

She smiled at me with such merriment of recognition, and such a yearning to be recognised in return, that you would think this was a moment granted to her when she was let out of the shadows for one day in a thousand. — Alice Munro

When passion rules, she never rules wisely. — Benjamin Franklin

A sign on the door proclaimed: The countess is NOT to be bothered except in the cases of death, disembowelment, the Apocalypse, or the arrival of her mother. — Courtney Milan

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it. — Frederick Lenz

You can laugh of everything, but not with everybody. — Pierre Desproges

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote. — Pierre Desproges

The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him! — Pierre Desproges

If you think of something, do it.
Plenty of people often think, I'd like to do this, or that. — Lydia Davis