Gratuit Quotes & Sayings

When exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy? — Rebecca Solnit

there was no getting away from one's self. So — Jane Austen

It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things. — Emma Donoghue

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water. — Barbara Hurd

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing. — Matthew J. Kirby

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s. — Andrew Lansley

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life. — Kristin Hannah

Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie. — Michael Jackson

Sii la mia schiava d'amore," I purr.
Her expression is guarded. "What did you say?"
An amused smile pulls at my lips. "I'll never tell." Somehow, I don't think she'd agree to be my love slave anyway. — Lisa Desrochers

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. — Agnes Repplier