Libertino Paris Quotes & Sayings

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction. — John Ruskin

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life. — Pat Benatar

Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover.
A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, [the Torah] the sacred writings of the Jewish people ... They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other people has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources ... — John Roberts

Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values. — Albert Mohler

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children. — Susie Orbach

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph. — Michelle Cliff

War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. — Alberto Moravia

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps. — Milan Kundera

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man. — Lord Mountbatten