Fredetu Quotes & Sayings

But happy is the man who has given it this impulse toward better things! He will place himself beyond the jurisdiction of chance; he will wisely control prosperity; he will lessen adversity, and will despise what others hold in admiration. It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great. For the one condition is useful and lifegiving; but the other does harm just because it is excessive. — Seneca.

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life. — Ben Shahn

What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking
excited by fancy, directed by judgment
and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object. — Sarah Fielding

As it turned out, my fears were unwarranted. Which isn't to say you haven't changed. But the biggest change of all has been a measure of peace. The peace is not total, but in the face of a suffocating anxiety, a measure of peace is no small thing. — Maggie Nelson

The hatred of the West and of everything that it represents arises not because its spirit is really foreign to the peoples of the third world, nor because they are really opposed to the "progress" that we embody, but because the competitive spirit is as familiar to them as it is to ourselves. Far from turning away from the West, they cannot prevent themselves from imitating it, from adopting its values without admitting it to themselves. They are no less consumed than we are by the ideology of individual and collective success. — Rene Girard

Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him ... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there. — Hudson Taylor

Basis of society: anonymous sweat. — Emile M. Cioran

I'm glad I'm a strong person. — Freida Pinto

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. — Brett Ratner

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally. — Diana Vreeland

In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit ... In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'. — Warren Farrell

The student armed with information will always win the battle. — Meladee McCarty

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women. — Richard Flanagan

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity. — Nathaniel Philbrick