Gauvain Table Ronde Quotes & Sayings

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent. — Loung Ung

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. — John Ruskin

You got to love to be able to play — Louis Armstrong

the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those — Yuval Noah Harari

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze? — Victor Hugo