Ducatillon Poulailler Quotes & Sayings

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief. — Thomas Paine

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day - are the true? — Monica Ali

Jesus, Jean," I yell, "the cuffs are just held in place with carabiners. Just unhook them." I swear some people just have no experience with strapping women to tables. What is this country coming to? — Eric Lahti

If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it. — David Foster Wallace

Today, much of the global economy is based on debt and confidence. As long as we all keep holding hands and no one breaks ranks, everything will be fine. By the way, the word "fine" is my acronym for "Feeling Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Any man is good when life treats him well, and bad when it treats him badly. — Simonides

Do not pursue what you cannot keep. — Sunday Adelaja

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly. — Richard Bach

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search. — Confucius