Fleur By Louise Erdrich Quotes & Sayings

I look down at my black Diablo, head on his paws. He is at my feet. He knows that he must trust to my forgiveness for his daily meat. So he wags his plumed tail and noses at my foot and I pat him gently. Affection, I tell him, is how a dog survives. Knowing how to exist without it is how a woman wrests her life into her own hands. But then it comes, it takes one by surprise. Affection and freedom and the will to risk. Everything that happened since I answered the door to Fleur was leading up to this. — Louise Erdrich

The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it. — Ludwig Von Mises

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had to become, in order not to follow those we loved into the next world. We grew hard. We became impenetrable, sparing of our pity. Sorrows that leveled other people were small to us. We made no move to avoid pain. Sometimes we even welcomed it--we were clumsy with knives, fire, boiling water, steel traps. Pain took our minds off the greater pain that was the mistake that we still existed. — Louise Erdrich

He's doing something in Surbiton next. Or Serbia, one or the other. — A. L. Kennedy

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices. — Michel De Montaigne

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit. — Leonard Ravenhill

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.' — Gilbert Gottfried

Radio is in my blood. — Laura Schlessinger

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will. — James Galvin

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly. — Timothy Ferriss

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does. — Frank Herbert

God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory. — Jim Berg

Dreams come true! — Various