Jacques Servier Quotes & Sayings

A blush of roses on my face. [ ... ] I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage. — Tahereh Mafi

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter. — H.L. Mencken

He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message. — Erika Eleniak

You must have vision higher than yourself.
Divine powers are always at work to help you achieve your visions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she's 'damaged goods', a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom 'do you still love me?' you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even. — Joey Comeau

We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn't the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it. — Shannon L. Alder

But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?"
"Theirs. — Yiyun Li

It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. Perhaps immortality, too, is part of the quest. To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book. — Studs Terkel

Life's so brief," she goes on. "We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book. — Kate Mulgrew

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts. — Cornelius Lanczos

Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today. — Gabriella Marigold Lindsay

To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play. — Frederick Lenz

They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were. — Marisa Silver

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this. — Alexis Hall