Estaminets Dans Quotes & Sayings

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. — F. Sionil Jose

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares. — John Ruskin

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie. — Lauren Oliver

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons. - Travis from The Good Father — Diane Chamberlain

Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists, which will be anything like so startling as fulfilling any one of the old ones. On the day that any copybook maxim is carried out there will be something like an earthquake on the earth. There is only one thing new that can be done under the sun; and that is to look at the sun. If you attempt it on a blue day in June, you will know why men do not look straight at their ideals. — G.K. Chesterton

There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe.
All simple things. All fixable things. — Gary Paulsen

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. — Barack Obama

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return — Barack Obama

While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible - through analysis and research - to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the idea of a specific God. — David G. McAfee

Organic food production has existed for thousands of years (since the beginning of agriculture) and it will continue as long as humans live on the planet. — David Wolfe

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. — Stephen King

Dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits. — Kazuo Ishiguro