Guynemer Aviateur Quotes & Sayings

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. — G.K. Chesterton

Came because I commanded." "You commanded. I came. If you want to think you caused my coming, so be it. But God's commands are the only ones I obey willingly. — Orson Scott Card

Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry. — Albert Einstein

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. — Michel De Montaigne

So let me ask you something. If you believe in the Devil, or 'Satan' as you call him, how do you think he goes about wreaking all this havoc?"
"Just like God goes about doing his thing, with help from all us pitiful souls." When she gave him an odd look, he elaborated by saying, "God has angels, disciples and so forth. Satan has demons, cultists and whatnot. — Gina Salamon

He'd had no family. Hers didn't deserve her. Then we will be family. Never will I be separated from her. — Kresley Cole

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt ... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed. — Susan Sontag

Flaubert teaches you to gave upon the truth and not blink from its consequences; he teaches you, with Montaigne, to sleep on the pillow of doubt; he teaches you to dissect out the constituent parts of reality, and to observe the Nature is always a mixture of genres; he teaches you the most exact use of language; he teaches you not to approach a book in search of moral or social pills
literature is not a pharmacopoeia; he teaches the pre-eminence of Truth, Beauty, Feeling and Style. And if you study his private life, he teaches courage, stoicism, friendship; the importance of intelligence, skepticism and wit; the folly of cheap patriotism; the virtue of being able to remain by yourself in your own room; the hatred of hypocrisy; distrust of the doctrinaire; the need for plain speaking. — Julian Barnes

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. — Charles Bukowski

Time is the enemy of freedom. — Andy Hargreaves

The library is not just an information center. It's always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life. — Wendy MacNaughton

The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus. — Martin Heidegger