Gournay Quotes & Sayings

They get me, and I get them. They have empathy. Most people don't, they really don't. — James Patterson

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die. — Steve Lacy

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc. — Shailene Woodley

Ignorance is the mother of presumption — Marie De Gournay

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way. — Kristen Johnston

You are a compilation of choices. And you can control that. — Brian Bennudriti

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence. — Louise Hay

The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat. — Marie De Gournay

Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime. — Marie De Gournay

You better get it while you can — Steve Goodman

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie De Gournay

People can show false love But cant false Hate
People can show false caring But cant false careless
So believe on it they show you hate and treat you careless ,.It is true feelings — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain. — Isabella Bird

If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal ... — Marie De Gournay

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth. — Ann Patchett

The most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. — Marie De Gournay

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor. — Candace Bushnell

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in. — Bernhard Langer

Certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard. — Marie De Gournay

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place. — Gabriel Byrne

Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian. — Marie De Gournay