Guenassia Quotes & Sayings

Spirituality gives sacredness of strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History is made by those who see beyond what already exists.
They see all the things that don't yet. — Natasha Tsakos

Look me in the eye, and never forget what I'm about to tell you. There are only two prohibitions, one according to man's law, the other according to God's. Never force a sexual relationship on anyone, because that is considered to be rape. And never have sexual relations with children, because that is the worst of all sins. Apart from that, you're free. There's always someone who wants exactly what you want. — Paulo Coelho

There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you'll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it's worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular. — Signe Baumane

Literature is not just stories. It's based on truth. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe. — R.C. Sproul

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency. — Samuel Johnson

How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards? — Jean-Michel Guenassia

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous. — Henry David Thoreau

Only amnesiacs have no regrets. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age. — Pete Coors

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it — Henry Mintzberg

God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different. — Pope Francis

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. — George Orwell

I hated wasting my time. The only thing that seemed worthwhile to me was reading. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

There was so much to say, and I had so much to ask, but all I could do was whisper, "Kai, please come with me." just as the bathroom door clicked shut. * — Megan Erickson

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life. — Juanes

We always fear losing our memory, yet it's the source of our troubles. Happy people forget. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

In due course, I came to classify writers into two categories: those who enabled you to arrive on time and those who caused you to be late. The Russian authors earned me a whole string of detentions. — Jean-Michel Guenassia

Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility. — Alan Dean Foster