Journalisme Quebecois Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time. — Pema Chodron

In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either. — Marilynne Robinson

I was with you right up until you said, 'Bring the pain.' I've only ever brought cookies, or the occasional casserole. — Nicole Peeler

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God. — Simone Weil

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. — Terry Pratchett

My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think. — Cate Blanchett

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality. — Marc Webb

eBooks make lousy door stoppers — Greg Davidson

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina. — Edward Lear

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. — Nanao Sakaki