Fransua Laroshfuko Quotes & Sayings

Social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles. — Alice S. Rossi

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world. — Richard Dean Anderson

There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it . — Dale Carnegie

Madeline: Form of poetry.
Olly: that assumes that I have one
Madeline: You're not a heathen.
Olly: limericks
Madeline: You are a heathen. I'm going to pretend you didn't say that. — Nicola Yoon

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it. — John Noble

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select. — Tony Dungy

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. — Adam Jones

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy! — Jeaniene Frost

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created. — Ali MacGraw

you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it. — Edward L. Beach

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention. — Helmut Gernsheim

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding

I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying." — Ezra Furman

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond ... — Steve Martin