Lesquels Ont Quotes & Sayings

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it. — Thomas Paine

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. — George Canning

Time Does Not Bring Relief
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go, - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless. — Leo Tolstoy

I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup. — Mike Pence

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are. — Daniel Gilbert

Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions — Biz Stone

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers. — Bob Goff

The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs. — Blake Crouch

A very little little let us do
And all is done. — William Shakespeare

We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to grasp them and follow them up, then they are gone, and gone for ever. At least we must try. — Mary Stewart

By the way..." Jax gave me that half grin that caused my toes to curl inside my socks when I twisted toward him. "Those shorts and those legs? Perfection. — J. Lynn

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be. — Clayton M Christensen