Flou Quotes & Sayings

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now. — Peter Pace

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore ...
-Mitsuko Souma — Koushun Takami

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. — Bruce Lee

She sighed. "I don't know, Father, how do you get over someone who's held your heart in their hands for so long? And what do you do when they constantly turn your love away, leaving you battered and bruised?" A sob broke free from her throat to pierce the darkness.
His arm stiffened, paralyzed over her shoulder.
Marcy's voice rose, quiet and strong, to counter her daughter's pain. "You run to the arms of the Almighty, Lizzie. 'Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.' That's the only place our hearts are safe, the only place they can heal. — Julie Lessman

You can grieve for me the week before I die, if I'm scared and hurting, but when I gasp that last fleeting breath and my immortal soul flees to heaven, I'm going to be jumping over fire hydrants down the golden streets, and my biggest concern, if I have any, will be my wife back here grieving. When I die, I will be identified with Christ's exaltation. But right now, I'm identified with His affliction. — R.C. Sproul

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints. — Edmund Burke

Ventilation is the profound secret of existence. — Peter Sloterdijk

Bound and helpless to do anything but moan, she gave in to the unraveling until she fell apart with a pleasure so intense it felt like dying, like the universe had ceased to exist because nothing could ever be this perfect again. — Nicolette Hugo

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. — Elie Wiesel

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength. — Sonia Sotomayor

They come and go, without the drowsy observer's participation, but are essentially different from dream pictures for he is still master of his senses. They are often grotesque. I am pestered by roguish profiles, by some coarse-featured and florid dwarf with a swelling nostril or ear. At times, however, my photisms take on a rather soothing flou quality, and then I see - projected, as it were, upon the inside of the eyelid - gray figures walking between beehives, or small black parrots gradually vanishing among mountain snows, or a mauve remoteness melting beyond moving masts. — Vladimir Nabokov

Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers. — Marilyn Ferguson

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris. — Giambattista Valli

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh

Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth. — Margaret Peterson Haddix