Lafourche Quotes & Sayings

The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been. — Milton Friedman

I had a reputation of being merciless at times. After a particularly busy night working with me, one of the newer backservers nursed his wounds over a beer and complained that I had ridden him hard. After that, I tried to take it easy on Seabiscuit, as we subsequently called him. When he worked hard and fast, I called him Bisquick. — Phoebe Damrosch

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened. — Bob Newhart

You are who you think you are. — Debasish Mridha

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability? — George Eliot

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women. — Francoise Sagan

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life. — Fredrik Backman

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles. — L.M. Montgomery

Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation. — Des Browne

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Looking back ten years, knowing how I feel today, I appreciate the now because in ten years I will look back and remember these days as the good days. — Celeste Cooper

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them. — Karen Russell