Goncourt Brothers Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever read any Hannah Arendt?" I must look lost, because he explains further. "She's a political theorist."
" Anyway, she wrote this book about the trial of a Nazi lieutenant named Adolf Eichmann in the 1960s. Arendt was a Jew who left Germany during Hitler's reign, and during the trial this guy had to face up to all the atrocities he committed. Things only a monster could conceive of. However, he was examined by psychologists, and it was determined that he wasn't a psychopath, that in fact he was entirely normal. This left Arendt to determine that perfectly ordinary, everyday people were capable of crimes normally associated with only the most depraved, wicked members of society. She called it the banality of evil. — L. H. Cosway

Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all. — Marissa Meyer

A lot of it is mental - you have to not fear your opponent. That's the number one thing, first off. Don't underestimate anybody, but don't fear anybody. — Roxrite

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Such a man is altogether beyond our reach. He succeeded where we always fail. He had complete self-mastery. He never retaliated. He never grew resentful or irritable. He had such control of himself that, whatever others might think or say or do, he would deny himself and abandon himself to the will of God and the welfare of his fellow human beings. 'I seek not to please myself,' he said, and 'I am not seeking glory for myself.' As Paul wrote, 'For Christ did not please himself.' This utter disregard of self in the service of God and man is what the Bible calls love. There is no self-interest in love. The essence of love is self-sacrifice. Even the worst of us is adorned by an occasional flash of such nobility, but the life of Jesus radiated it with a never-fading incandescent glow. Jesus was sinless because he was selfless. Such selflessness is love. And God is love. — John R.W. Stott

Newton led a discussion of Hamlet's observation that, to those who see it that way, all the world is a prison. HAMLET: — Laura Bates

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat. — Johnny Carson

No one can steal your dream because God has built it into you. — Lisa-Jo Baker

I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows. — Blythe Danner

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like ... — Alan Green

I believe that hope, imagination, and dreams create our destiny. — Debasish Mridha

Modern ideograph Cha was coined, evidently a corruption of the classic Tou. — Okakura Kakuzo