Fourneau English Translation Quotes & Sayings

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality. — Swami Vivekananda

But then, even in the most significant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is the same for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people. Even the simple act which we describe as "seeing someone we know" is to some extent an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the person we see with all the notions we have already formed about him, and in the total picture of him which we compose in our minds those notions have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in the sound of his voice as if it were no more than a transparent envelope, that each time we see the face or hear the voice it us these notions which we recognise and to which we listen. — Marcel Proust

I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting. — Newt Gingrich

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes

The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many. — Richard D. Wolff

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing. — Jim Hodges

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When a flower and a child come together, it makes two flowers or two children because every child is a flower and every flower is a child! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. — Armie Hammer

People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow. — Hunter Parrish

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself. — Nikki Haley

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day. — Janis Joplin