Lardinois Charlotte Quotes & Sayings

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world - indeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-states - the power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite; linguistic knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery. In Middle English the word 'glamour' developed out of the word 'grammar'. The person who could read would be thought easily capable of other impossibilities. — Peter Sloterdijk

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy. — Viktor E. Frankl

She reached up and kissed him on the lips. It was a small kiss. It lasted only two or three seconds, just long enough for him to taste the future. — Francisco X Stork

There aren't any real strong people anywhere. Only people who can put on a good show of being strong. — Haruki Murakami

No pleasure here on Earth I find. For in this world, I'm bound to ramble. — Ralph Stanley

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward De Bono

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Ever since I could read, I've wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don't think this is worth writing about. But this book isn't for you. It's for me. — Daniel Willey

Friendship is more important than truth. — Wanda Landowska

It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place. — Cecilia Grant

He's not meeting my eyes anymore. "We're young," he says. "We've got lots of time to fall in love. — Cynthia Hand

Remember you are the perfect reflector of your mind. — Richmond Akhigbe

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be. — Jonathan Tropper

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters. — Adolph Green