Jean Pare Quotes & Sayings

Just because you won the War doesn't mean you can do whatever you like!' says Yaroslav. 'And just because we lost it doesn't mean you can strip us of everything we value! — Robert Jackson Bennett

In the winter you could see them sitting on the benches by the war memorial. The cold couldn't touch them in those days. They drank mulled wine from thermos flasks and smoked their cigarettes hastily, as if they might warm them up. Tamara doesn't know when the cold took hold of them. They feel it much more quickly now, the whine more, and if anyone asks them why, they reply that the world is getting colder and colder. They could also answer that they'd got older, but that would be too honest, you don't say that until you're forty and you can look back. In your late twenties you go through your very private climate disaster and hope for better times. — Zoran Drvenkar

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. — Jim C. Hines

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love. — Mahmoud Darwish

Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously. — Hillary Johnson

Just as war cost the Montagues and Capulets their children, it cost Microsoft and Google their dominance: Apple came along and overtook them all. In January 2013, Apple's market capitalization was $500 billion, while Google and Microsoft combined were worth $467 billion. Just — Peter Thiel

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. — Charles Baudelaire

It was the kind of winter day that makes you forget that the weather was ever any different, and you feel like it has been winter all the way back to Adam. — Wendell Berry

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. — Ivan Pavlov

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect. — Florence Welch

Ah! dear friend,
you little know the possibilities which are in you. — Charles Spurgeon

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy ... Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings. — Aldo Leopold

You are aliens and strangers in my sight, as were all your forefathers. You are of few days and full of trouble. You spring up like a flower and wither away; like a fleeting shadow, you do not endure. I raise the poor from the dust and lift the needy from the ash heap. I foil the plans of the nations; I thwart the purposes of the peoples. — Zhang Yun