Jeannotte William Quotes & Sayings

The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep. — Idries Shah

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint. — Dan Wells

Attitudes are caught, not taught. — Fred Rogers

It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use. — Henning Mankell

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. — Thomas Hardy

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it's not as if we're packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after all, or pasting them in scrapbooks. But packed-away virginities aside, the interesting - and dangerous - idea at play here is that of 'morality. When young women are taught about morality, there's not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens (though the preferred words are undoubtedly more refined - think 'virginity' and 'chastity'): if we have them, when we'll lose them, and under what circumstances we'll be rid of them. — Jessica Valenti

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. — Michael Ignatieff

As the train rolled through the countryside, so lush and green, and into the sprawling suburbs of south London, I stared around at all the strangeness: the narrow little "terraced" houses all in rows of brick and chimneypots, the tiny back gardens with clotheslines and garden sheds, the little cars all on the wrong side of the road - it was all so delightfully foreign, and exotic. My first lesson that the rest of the world really was more different than I knew or imagined. — Neil Peart

All charming people are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles. — Emma McLaughlin

Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness. — Diana Gabaldon