Ladislas Chollat Quotes & Sayings

All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind - it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement — Elizabeth Gaskell

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time. — Danny McBride

Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to students of evolution, rooted in specific morphological characteristics of our species and thus cannot be eliminated from our minds as long as our species retains its identity. As both Pandora's most deplorable accident and the adventures of our progenitors in Paradise testify, curiosity has been a main cause of all the calamities and misfortunes that have befallen mankind, and it has unquestionably been the source of all its achievements. — Leszek Kolakowski

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose. — Giulio Douhet

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience. — James Cameron

Gran swatted his butt and shooed him away out the door. "Now, we can get down to business." She rubbed her hands together like a villain. — Shelly Crane

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.
And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent, our bodies can't contain it. — Amy Harmon

Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days."
- Roen, "Fire — Kristin Cashore

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. — Naomie Harris