Jeanne Dalbret Quotes & Sayings

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. — Charlotte Bronte

I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as perfect love. That's too long. — Eoin Colfer

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot

Summer makes a silence after spring. — Vita Sackville-West

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future
— John Jakes

I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it. — Anna Faris

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion ... they need our legs & lungs of endurance. — Gary Haugen

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. — Clifford Stoll

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. — Frederick Soddy

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.