La Rochelle Quotes & Sayings

Unrealistic optimism is a pervasive feature of human life; it characterizes most people in most social categories. When they overestimate their personal immunity from harm, people may fail to take sensible preventive steps. If people are running risks because of unrealistic optimism, they might be able to benefit from a nudge. In fact, we have already mentioned one possibility: if people are reminded of a bad event, they may not continue to be so optimistic. — Richard H. Thaler

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge. — Walter Gilbert

Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay. — Pete Townshend

He adored force and hated weakness. It is the crime of female natures. — Francois Mauriac

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game. — Evan Esar

If somthing is not right or real, dont loss your self. - Clarice Bean Dont look Now — Lauren Child

Well, your mater is an ass. — Jennifer Worth

According to a former drone operator for the military's Joint Special Operations Command, the National Security Agency often identifies targets for drone strikes based on controversial metadata analysis and cell phone tracking technologies - an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. Rather than confirming a target's identity with operatives or informants on the ground, the CIA or the U.S. military orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone a person is believed to be using. — Jeremy Scahill

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. — Frank Crane

Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came. Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years War. From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. — Amor Towles

It's tough to live in New York and be in the business. — John Krasinski

The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection
You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle
("Tennis") — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Sure, they became frustrated with students at times and occasionally displayed impatience, but because they were willing to face the failures of teaching and believed in their capacity to solve problems, they tried not to become defensive with their students or build a wall around themselves. Instead, they tried to take their students seriously as human beings and treated them the way they might treat any colleague, with fairness, compassion, and concern. That approach found reflection in what they taught, how they taught it, and how they evaluated students, but it also appeared in attempts to understand their students' lives, cultures, and aspirations. It even emerged in their willingness to see their students outside of class. — Ken Bain

Anyone know if the shuttles to Hell will have Wifi? Asking for a friend. — Jim Gaffigan

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one's neighbor, in the existence of one's neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves. — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

It's not a bad thing to be loved. — Koushun Takami

When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious — Rochelle Magee

Promising is the eve of giving. — George Herbert

Dreaming's great as long as you wake up now and again — Benny Bellamacina

And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. - DRIEU LA ROCHELLE, — Clive James

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence
("Roundness") — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other. — David Steinberg