Hurtubise Editions Quotes & Sayings

mind, this poor child must be from — P.L. Parker

When one loves, one does not calculate. — Therese De Lisieux

The ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument - in short, popular religion may be summed up as respect for ecclesiastics. — Christopher Hitchens

There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of. — Thabo Mbeki

Oh, I've wept. Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are. You know what, I know I'm a good mom. — Britney Spears

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning. — Robert Gottlieb

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. — Judy Blume

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world. — James Fallows

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl

Think of money as energy like you would love and then the belief in the universe will provide all you have been dreaming of. — Nikki Rowe

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity. — Pema Chodron

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Like a siren who sings to the sailor, asking him to steer his ship into the rocks, the call of your blood could be my undoing - and yours. — Deborah Harkness

Daily study of the scriptures is [an] important family activity. I remember when my son was seven years old. He was taking a shower one night during a storm when we lost the power in our home. My wife called to him and told him to hurry to finish his shower and to then take a candle and come slowly downstairs for our family prayer. She warned him to be careful to not drop the candle on the carpet because it could start a fire and the house could burn down. Several minutes later he came down the stairs struggling to hold the candle in one hand, and with his other arm he was carrying his scriptures. His mother asked him why he was bringing his scriptures. His answer to her was 'Mom, if the house burns down, I must save my scriptures!' We knew that our efforts to help him to love the scriptures had been planted in his heart forever. — Claudio Costa

Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just. — Robert Nozick