Goncourt 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Giving when you can is generosity.
Giving when you can't is sacrifice. — J.R. Rim

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional ... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am. — Dana Goodyear

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa

And yes. I'd totally just compared the only guy I'd ever felt this way about to a ham sandwich. — Jenna Evans Welch

She'd always had a plan. It seemed like the smart thing to do-have a plan and follow it, until you have solid reasons to change course. — Rainbow Rowell

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me. — Ace Hood

Over the years, Gwen had found there were two kinds of men. Men who made eating a woman an art form because they were average - or barely - in size so they had to compensate. And men who were hung like horses but felt that nine-incher somehow exempted them from one of her favorite forms of entertainment.
Yet somehow that Irish luck that had kept Gwen alive all these years deigned to reward on her the highest blessing a woman could hope for. A well-hung man who loved to give his woman head. — Shelly Laurenston

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence
even mental. — Jacques Maritain

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. — Nick Harkaway

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline. — Ivy Lee

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach. — Nicholas Kristof

Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy. It's not their fault - it's not easy figuring out how to be happy in these days of anything-but-moderation. — A.S. King

I loved literally everything about this man; even his ex-wife. — Sahara Sanders