Fomenter Larousse Quotes & Sayings

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour. — Abraham Lincoln

The portrait-photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art. — Roland Barthes

It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms ... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. — Sharon Salzberg

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of. — Charles Spurgeon

To suffer is better than to do evil;' and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation. — Plato

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time. — Jonathan Lethem

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is. — Sherman Alexie

I swung the door open and seductively leaned against it. The ultimate badass looked like he was having a heart attack. — Christine Zolendz

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this. — Jon Cryer

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love. — Friedrich Nietzsche