Flavien Paquet Quotes & Sayings

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with. — Sheena Iyengar

All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be all right
whether or not you know you will know
look at the old house in the dawn rain
all the flowers are forms of water
the sun reminds them through a white cloud
touches the patchwork spread on the hill
the washed colors of the afterlife
that lived there long before you were born
see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning — W.S. Merwin

In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and meanings that we can use in ten thousand lifetimes. Inertia-hysteria. Is history possible? Is anyone serious? Who do we take serious? Only the lethal believer, the person who kills and dies for faith. Everything else is absorbed. The artist is absorbed, the madman in the street is absorbed an processed and incorporated. Give him a dollar, put him in a TV commercial. Only the terrorists stand outside. The culture hasn't figured out how to assimilate him. It's confusing when they kill the innocent. But this is precisely the language of being noticed, the only language the West understands. The way they determine how we see them. The way they dominate the rush of endless streaming images. — Don DeLillo

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman. — Suzanne Collins

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true. — Mary Ann Shaffer

BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time. — Steven Sinofsky

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint-Laurent

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing. — David Ortiz

Doubt wisely; in strange way
To stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne

A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue. — Stacey D'Erasmo

This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather. It has everything to do with establishing the socialist international at the heart of the UN and making every nation bow the knee to this new dictatorship, and the climate is merely a fig leaf to cover what they are trying to do. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it. — Karl Marx