Faute Quotes & Sayings

I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York. — Eric Schneiderman

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with. — Big Boi

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. — Rainer Maria Rilke

T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function. Poetry is the creation of linguistic quasi-things; prose is for explanation and exposition, it is essentially didactic, documentary, informative. Prose is ideally transparent; it is only faute de mieux written in words. The influential modern stylist is Hemingway. It would be almost inconceivable now to write like Landor. Most modern English novels indeed are not written. One feels they could slip into some other medium without much loss. It takes a foreigner like Nabokov or an Irishman like Beckett to animate prose language into an imaginative stuff in its own right. — Iris Murdoch

Please excuse the torn edges of this note. I am writing to you from inside the shack the Baudelaire orphans were forced to live in while at Prufrock Preparatory School, and I am afraid that some of the crabs tried to snatch my stationery away from me. On Sunday night, please purchase a ticket for seat 10-J at the Erratic Opera Company's performance of the opera Faute de Mieux. During Act Five, use a sharp knife to rip open the cushion of your seat. There you should find — Lemony Snicket

All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.' — Ramsay MacMullen

Marley Jackson was mine, and I was hers, all smashed together for our happily ever after. — Shelly Crane

Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world. — Alan Gratz

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot. — Paul Ryan

Dissents speak to a future age. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency. — Gary Vaynerchuk

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there. — Gary Snyder

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] — Joseph Fouche