Quotes & Sayings About Fantine From Les Miserables

I find that stubbornness often beats intelligence eventually. Stubbornness will beat anything eventually. That's the whole point of stubbornness. — Scott Meyer

How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a moment he pushed aside the thought of money. From time to time the dark water beside them rippled audibly, as if a tiny fish had come to the surface for an instant and then darted beneath. It was in peaceful moments such as this, his father had said, that men were given to know just a little of what paradise was like, so that they might yearn for it with all their soul,and strive during their time on earth to be worthy of going there. — Paul Bowles

Remember we are all connected by a garland we call love. — Debasish Mridha

The good lawyer is the great salesman. — Janet Reno

Here, kids celebrated whoever got away with the worst behavior while shunning anyone attempting to do the right thing. — Hugh Howey

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one. — Lita Ford

Participant Inc. gallery, — Kim Gordon

Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward. — Tarryn Fisher

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves. — Walter Lippmann

Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick. Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.) I — S.L. Viehl

Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control — Martha Woodroof

Henrietta, at heart a contemplative person, enjoyed alarums and excursions for a short while only. For her a background of quiet was essential to happiness. It had been fun to stay with Felicity, to be petted and spoiled by her friends, to be applauded by big audiences in a crowded theater, to have lovely things to eat and go to the zoo whenever she liked, but it had completely upset her equilibrium and she had felt as though she had been turned upside down so that everything that was worth while in her mind fell out. She, like everyone else, had to find out by experience in what mode of life she could best adjust herself to the twin facts of her own personality and the moment of time in which destiny had planted it, and she was lucky perhaps that she found out so early. — Elizabeth Goudge