Goncourt Award Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Meet me at the moon. — Claudia Carroll

There was no reason to hate anyone. There is no reason to react to the world around you with hatred. You have to understand that someone has made the choice for you when they say you have to hate. The choice is yours and the only way you can make the world a better place is by doing the opposite of hating. It is by loving. — Omar Saif Ghobash

The same amazing blush he had seen once — Jack London

Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it - over and over again. — Anthony Marais

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi. — Saul Leiter

Inheritance adds complexity to a program, and, as such, it's a dangerous technique. As Java guru Joshua Bloch says, "Design and document for inheritance, or prohibit it." If a class isn't designed to be inherited from, make its members non-virtual in C++, final in Java, or non-overridable in Microsoft Visual Basic so that you can't inherit from it. — Steve McConnell

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most. — Conor Oberst

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us. — Marianne Williamson