Jeanne Devoto Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn. — H. P. Blavatsky

Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Then the one which is not, if it is to maintain itself, must have the being of not-being as the bond of not-being, just as being must have as a bond the not-being of not-being in order to perfect its own being; for the truest assertion of the being of being and of the not-being of not-being is when being partakes of the being of being, and not of the being of not- being
that is, the perfection of being; and when not-being does not partake of the not-being of not-being but of the being of not-being
that is the perfection of not-being. — Plato

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. — Aldous Huxley

The girl looks out the window, watching the gentle, familiar blue sky fade into darkness. The stars come out, slowly at first and then all together, diamond-bright, each one a new world to discover.
But no matter how long the girl looks, she feels nothing. Puzzled, she looks for the girl who wanted to be an explorer, the girl who wanted to learn deep-sea diving and mountain-climbing, the girl who wanted to travel the stars. But she can't find her. That girl died when her parents did, in a little shop in the slums of November. And now she has no soul left to shatter.
She closes the shade over the window. — Amie Kaufman

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears. — Arthur Miller

Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. — George Herbert

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress. — Thalia

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life. — Kwame Kilpatrick

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. — Patricia Highsmith

The true well-being of the church: when she cannot count on anything anymore but God's promises.
-Johannes Hoekendijk — Neil Cole

It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction. — Ellie Kendrick

At first we feel called by God and attracted by him. We grow in our vocation and get the impression that God has gripped us and will never let us go. We want to withdraw from him in order to escape his grasp. But he loves us too much to allow us to fall. He holds us fast, challenges us. — Notker Wolf

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God. — DeVon Franklin