Largement Suffisant Quotes & Sayings

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality . — R.A. Lafferty

Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold, so hard?"
A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. "What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it? — Matthew Jobin

Southern racists were able to protect murderers only because their legislators exploited fears of centralized power. — Barney Frank

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.' — Meghan Trainor

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one. — Paul Valery

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. — E. M. Forster

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity? — David Budbill

No child ever became 'good' by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him. — Maddy Malhotra

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? — David Bohm

Just know that whatever you invest your time doing, you'll become that real soon. — Terraine Francois

So, if you were to divide your school in to subsections of the animal kingdom, or, let's just say into primates ... — Kate Ellison

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive. — Patrick Ness

From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury"


Today, noon, a young macho friendly waiter and three diners,
business types - two males, one female -
are in a quandary about the name of the duck paddling
Otter Creek,
the duck being brown, but too large to be a female mallard.
They really want to know, and I'm the human-watcher behind the nook
of my table,
camouflaged by my stillness and nonchalant plumage.
They really want to know.
This sighting I record in the back of my Field Guide to People. — Greg Delanty