Edmonde Permingeat Quotes & Sayings

Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) — Agatha Christie

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write. — Ben Elton

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important. — Christie Watson

She cut a small piece of the gravalax and put it on a piece of black bread, daintily spooned a bit of dill sauce onto it, and ate it like it was the last piece of food in the world. I tried to imitate her, eating so slowly, tasting the raw pink fish and the coarse, sour bread, salt and sugar around the rind, flavors and scents like colors on a palette, like the tones in music. — Janet Fitch

0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. — Phillips Brooks

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect. — Jean-Claude Juncker

putting my mouth across the velvety head of his shaft, already anticipating his musky scent — Audrey Carlan

Hence, that crown is the money of hell. — Victor Hugo

As long as I'm living, I'm always going to try and become and get to whatever is next. Even when I become this one thing, when I get there, I'm going to try and become something else. As human beings, as long as we're alive, we're forever becoming. — Stacy Barthe

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see. — Albert Camus

He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. — Henry David Thoreau

[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God. — Reza Aslan

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. — Publilius Syrus

The Keswick, "higher-life" movement ... also contributed to a reduction of interest in biblical theology and deeper scholarship. No Christian in his right mind will desire anything other than true holiness and righteousness in the church of God. But Keswick had isolated one doctrine, holiness, and altered it by the false simplicity contained in the slogan, "Give up, let go and let God." If you want to be holy and righteous, we are told, the intellect is dangerous and it is thought generally unlikely that a good theologian is likely to be a holy person ... You asked me to diagnose the reasons for the present weakness and I am doing it ... If you teach that sanctification consists of "letting go" and letting the Holy Spirit do all the work, then don't blame me if you have no scholars!171 — Mark A. Noll

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it. — Edna Ferber