L'auberge Espagnole French Quotes & Sayings

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse. — Robert Shea

Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don't work well, something else will. There's always money being lost, so someone out there has to win. — Gil Blake

My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr ... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her. — John Steinbeck

Both Stoicism and Epicureanism - . the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure - were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved; — Will Durant

You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself. — Michael Fassbender

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise. — William Dean Howells

When a man is finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box. So Hazel, condemned to the presidency, since he could not escape it, began to ornament it. A man can climb high on the steps of responsibility. — John Steinbeck

This is my fate, I thought, a little deliriously. I die getting monologued to by a supervillain. — Wildbow

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity — Henry Clarence Thiessen

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.' — Freida Pinto

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are. — John Flanagan

The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves. — Chloe Thurlow