Lemieux Foundation Quotes & Sayings

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old — Groucho Marx

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received. — David Hume

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload. — Clare Vanderpool

Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads. — Stephen Rodrick

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. — Dave Grohl

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for — Drake

Hinduism is not a codified religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Before Summer Rain


Suddenly, from all the green around you,
something-you don't know what-has disappeared;
you feel it creeping closer to the window,
in total silence. From the nearby wood

you hear the urgent whistling of a plover,
reminding you of someone's Saint Jerome:
so much solitude and passion come
from that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour

will grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glide
away from us, cautiously, as though
they weren't supposed to hear what we are saying.

And reflected on the faded tapestries now;
the chill, uncertain sunlight of those long
childhood hours when you were so afraid — Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur, you used to sound your age. Now you're sounding several centuries old.' 'What's wrong with that? One of the great pleasures that used to come with senior citizenship was the right to be perfectly vile to everyone. You could say whatever you liked, and people excused you out of respect for your advanced years. But now that everyone is in touch with their emotions and says exactly what they feel, even that pleasure has been taken away. Is there nothing the young haven't usurped? — Christopher Fowler

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished that he had never met any of them. — Melina Marchetta

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy. — Walter Isaacson