Gontier Pascal Quotes & Sayings

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression. — Camilo Villegas

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] — Horace

By then it was more of an observation than a decision; it was less a matter of abandoning the faith than waking up to the fact that it had disappeared, quietly leaked away, as if there had been a small hole in my tank all along. — Philip Stewart

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all. — Julia Quinn

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. — W. Edwards Deming

Life: I'll never understand it. — Haruki Murakami

Our infinity is bigger than other infinities. — John Green

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight. — Steve Martin

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. — Billy Ocean

People go away and they don't come back. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys. — John Landgraf

Sarah, he says, it isn't like I'm some old codger you have to coddle. Well, I told him, I want you healthy, to be sure that someday you are. — Nancy E. Turner

The stories didn't seem to care who he was or what he could do; it didn't matter. In their world, he wasn't alone. In their world, a freak like him - like him - could become a hero. — Estevan Vega

Dating is primarily a numbers game ... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is. — Henry Cloud

I rode all day.
I cried all night.
The moon didn't glow.
The sun didn't rise.
A comet blazed
Between my eyes.
West and South,
Wind and rain.
Every way is
Just the same.
Pray give me a box
To hide inside.
Pray give me a spade
To dig my own grave. — Gail Carson Levine