Djidjelli Quotes & Sayings

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians. — Virginia Postrel

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it. — Steve Farrar

There is a distinction between going after desirable things in life and needing them for our happiness. We can go after those things with detachment, without our moods ever being affected by the results of our obligations and efforts. This is an important part of the Epicurean art of living the good life. — Hiram Crespo

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. — Moliere

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. — Francis Bacon

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes. — Isak Dinesen

Forgotten is forgiven. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle — Michelangelo