Groult Benoite Quotes & Sayings

Feigheit wird manchmal belohnt. — Benoite Groult

The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Shelley

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next. — Miroslav Volf

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction. — Rachel Nichols

What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside ... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected ... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief. — Terence McKenna

Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day. — Benoite Groult

God connects us with those who inspire us and connect us to those whom we can inspire to greatness — Sunday Adelaja

If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs ... A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction. — Benoite Groult

It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room. — Benoite Groult

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse. — Henry David Thoreau

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive, — Questlove