John Baptist De Lasalle Quotes & Sayings

Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever serendipity brought its parents together, and the fact that the child was born to its particular parents instead of to another couple is pure happenstance. Thus, children have no choice over the relationship that is most important to their existence.
By contrast, friends and lovers choose each other, but even these choices are reactions to whatever random coincidence made the resulting relationship possible. — Zack Love

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Madam C. J. Walker

She did not know that she was wishing for nothing more, and something a little less, than the kingdom of heaven - the very thing she thought the laird and Cosmo so strange for troubling their heads about. If men's wishes are not always for what the kingdom of heaven would bring them, their miseries at least are all for the lack of that kingdom. — George MacDonald

When I think of how many people in this world have it worse
than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...
... and I have to give thanks ... — Shannan Lea

You look like you belong in a bad comic book," I told him cheerfully.
"What did the Drakes do that's got you all pissy?"
"Pissy? Did you just call me pissy? — Alyxandra Harvey

He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her. — Stephen King

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland. — Herman Cain

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability. — Jack Reed

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen

New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford. — Rafael Yglesias

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong. — Edward Snowden

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people. — Larry Ellison

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. — Youssou N'Dour