Girondist French Quotes & Sayings

The only peace you make is with your enemies. That is why they call it 'making peace'. — George R R Martin

What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition. — Pattiann Rogers

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. — Hillary Clinton

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die. — E. Lockhart

His smile wavers. I've been looking at him too long. 'Are you OK?' he says.
I nod, take a deep breath.
Then I lean over and kiss him. — Emma Pass

Who are the Brissotins? A good question.
You see, if you accuse people of a crime (for example, and especially, conspiracy) and refuse to sever their trials, then it will at once be seen that they are a group, that they have cohesion. Then if we want to say, you're a Brissotin, you're a Girondist - prove that you're not. Prove that you have a right to be treated separately. — Hilary Mantel

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. — Haruki Murakami

Only real true friends will tell you when your face is dirty,
Others will either pamper, avoid or laugh at you certainly.
[227] - 4 (Thoughts) — Munindra Misra

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly. — Harry Connick Jr.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace. — Alfred Nobel

In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it. — Bucky Sinister

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended. — Anne Bronte

Out of the hundreds of people that refuse to speak up and turn their backs on abused and neglected parrots, it's the one that stands up against the injustice that's going to be world famous. — Jes Furhmann

Here comes the pope saying, "Well, that may be true about Cruz, but you build walls, and we Christians don't do that. So you're not a Christian, either." Sometimes all you can do is chuckle. I mean, you need a break from it some. You just can't be intense and wadded up all the time here, folks. — Rush Limbaugh

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions. — John Daly