Jean Grenier Islands Quotes & Sayings

Snowden's itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other western nations when they abused human rights. But he was reluctant to speak out against governments that supported his personal efforts to avoid extradition. — Luke Harding

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me. — Linda Conrad

The faith state ... is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction ... [p.272] — William James

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet. — Michael Milken

Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason. — Kenny Smith

I'm sorry ... " She shrugs, glancing back at him. "Gotta admit he's hot, though, Livie. He looks like a Mediterranean underwear model. There'd be no coyote-ugly situation in the morning there. — K.A. Tucker

Firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism. — Narendra Modi

A man is valued by how sincere he is, and a man is also valued by how much he knows. But if a man knows nothing, he will be regarded a fool, no matter how sincere he is. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays. — Mae West

The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession. — G.I. Gurdjieff

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness. — Gary Hume

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind. — Mencius

Diggy wished he could cut sentences out of his head the way he could cut them out of a book, then cut them in half and word by word and letter by letter until they were bits of nothing that drifted from the scissors' edges, gravity not even interested enough to pull them down. — Rebecca Petruck