Famous William Ernest Henley Quotes & Sayings

The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white. — Patrick Gaubert

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh. — Doris Lessing

Don't be put off by someone telling you that your image looks too digital; maybe that's the way it's supposed to look. — Idris Khan

Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought. — Dianna Hardy

I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon. — Jane Badler

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways. — Lara St. John

The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love. — David Jeremiah

Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other. — Anne Carson

Newsflash, you Heavenly puke; no children that come of the union with my mate will ever be handed over to you. — Larissa Ione

Lifting a sad person up requires strong emotional muscles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. — Vincent Van Gogh

Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization. — Eraldo Banovac

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions. — Alex Garland

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding