Interlocuteur Anglais Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time. — Chuck Palahniuk

My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form. — Ben Robertson

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. — Theodor Adorno

For you, a thousand times over. Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms. — Khaled Hosseini

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach. — Marcus Aurelius

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst. — Charles Garfield

Certain books come to meet me, as do people. — Elizabeth Bowen

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. — Bobby Sherman

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step. — Scott Walker

People who have nothing to do always lack time. Perish all those who do not think as we do. Reason is a feeble weapon in contending with a woman. Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart. — Georg Ebers

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings. — Loretta Lynn

I knew this was a test. It was as if someone had handed me a sword and said fight. My lungs worked. My arms sloughed off old water. My body pulled even with hers and we matched strokes with each other, scoop to kick and neck to neck. We were stopped in time. We inhabited the same moment in time. We were insects in amber and the water pushed against us and then I pulled ahead of her. — Sara Jaffe

Yea, and ye need not any longer hiss, nor spurn, nor make game of the Jews, nor any of the remnant of the house of Israel; for behold, the Lord remembereth his covenant unto them, and he will do unto them according to that which he hath sworn. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. — John Piper