Le Grellet Quotes & Sayings

Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying. — Colson Whitehead

If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come in, you have to give them some money. If you don't, you're in trouble. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it. — Hugh Jackman

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people. — Mary Landrieu

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. — Osho

Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin. — Ashwin Sanghi

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings — Christopher Morley

The way people behave depends on the basic moral tests and norms in a society. Naturally, the Khmer Rouge, Al-Qaeda terrorists, respectable middle-class Europeans, and, say, members of the Komosol in the 1930's, would behave quite differently in identical situations. But that wouldn't change the essential point. The ration of altruists and egoists, even among Benedictine monks and members of the Gestapo, is the same. It's just that their altruism and egotism are expressed differently. — Sergei Lukyanenko

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon. — Shirley Jackson

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. — Walter Benjamin

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself. — Lynn Anderson

The only thing that's really your is you, so you have every right to keep it for yourself. — Zoe Klein

There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones, faxes or televisions. There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory. Even that great public sceptic about the value of science, Prince Charles, never flies a helicopter burning homeopathically diluted petrol, that is, water with only a memory of benzine molecules, maintained by a schedule derived from reading tea leaves, and navigated by a crystal ball. — Simon Blackburn

Contact with the customer is what business is all about. — Jay Leno