Lemerle Standard Quotes & Sayings

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. — Mark Pryor

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. — Philippe Petit

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero — Robert Asprin

Ask the average American what is the salient passion in his emotional armamentarium - what is the idea that lies at the bottom of all his other ideas - and it is very probable that, nine times out of ten, he will nominate his hot and unquenchable rage for liberty. He regards himself, indeed, as the chief exponent of liberty in the whole world, and all its other advocates as no more than his followers, half timorous and half envious. To question his ardour is to insult him as grievously as if one questioned the honour of the republic or the chastity of his wife. And yet it must be plain to any dispassionate observer that this ardour, in the course of a century and a half, has lost a large part of its old burning reality and descended to the estate of a mere phosphorescent superstition. — H.L. Mencken

Paris is always a good idea...
Audrey Hepburn — Barbara Donsky

I'd take my clothes off for chocolate and peanut butter. — Jenna Morasca

You wake up one morning to realize life has, literally, passed you by. Even though the living felt long and filled with happiness beyond measure, the reliving brings to mind how fleeting time is compared to the stars in the sky above us. — Tymber Dalton

Everybody's got sad stories." Devon's voice was as ungiving as stone. "And everyone thinks they're so very special and broken because of them. — Kat Zhang

Am I willing to give up my lofty ideas of success - even the "success" of serving God in great and visible ways - and instead content myself to serve in the mundane, to be largely invisible, and to meet the needs of those who can't return the favor? — Anonymous

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself
which is what they are most needed for. — Rudolf Arnheim

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress. — Thomas A. Edison

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. — Jean Rostand