Jacquemart Museum Quotes & Sayings

Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves. — Susan Jeffers

She met his gaze over the plums. The point is, we all care, to some degree, what others think of us. — Laura Lee Guhrke

E.T., who said to Phyllis Diller, You look weird. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.' — Lindsay Duncan

To recreate a new aristocracy is the eternal task of every revolutionary project. — Guillaume Faye

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. — John James Audubon

It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice. — Bear Grylls

I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here. — Prince

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could. — Sheldon Whitehouse

I really believe that breath, in and of itself ... can become the ultimate self-healing tool. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society — Haruki Murakami

Someone with a coherent philosophy of life will know what in life is worth attaining, and because this person has spent time trying to attain the thing in life he believed to be worth attaining, he has probably attained it, to the extent that it was possible for him to do so. Consequently, when it comes time for him to die, he will not feel cheated. To the contrary, he will, in the words of Musonius, "be set free from the fear of death."2 Consider, — William B. Irvine

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love. — Daphne Rose Kingma