Jouant Au Quotes & Sayings

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech ... For true poetry is never speech but always a song. — Herbert Read

God who is everything possesses the eye of awakening, like dreaming a long dream of an impossible task. — Jack Kerouac

When consuming goods rather than satisfying work becomes the focus of our culture, we have created (or acquieced in) a society of permanent adolescents. — Susan Neiman

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy. — Katy B

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. — Yvor Winters

Sometimes my lies impressed the hell out of me. — Mark Lawrence

Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight-it has put them in greater danger. — Ron Reagan

When I am playing with my cat, who knows whether she have more sport in dallying with me than I have in gaming with her? — Michel De Montaigne

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. — Peter Straub