Liesse Et Joie Quotes & Sayings

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson

And then I went on to make the most of those two years. It's over and done, Aubrey," he promised. "And anyway, I'm hoping if I play my cards right, you're going to give me a lifetime. — Jill Shalvis

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. — Tom Wolfe

She had to get used to her new name, The Drummer. Twelfth, and last in line, but on a good note, she had the most money, and more importantly, she was alive. — Dayna S. Rubin

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed ... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs from the rest, and cannot be reduced to nitrous acid, we may safely conclude that it is not more than 1/120 part of the whole.
[Cavendish did not realize the significance of the remaining small bubble. Not until a century later were the air's Noble Gases appreciated.] — Henry Cavendish

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened. — Mark Hart

The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves. — Wendy Lustbader

Why would I want to join an organization that would encourage people like myself to become members. — Groucho Marx

Having tasted life without the pain of obligation perpetually burning him from within, he'd choose death over the return to bondage. He'd make that choice in an instant. Life as a slave was unspeakable; life as a slave who had briefly tasted freedom was unthinkable. — Ian Tregillis

Every idiot assumes there's a pressing circumstance about his love that necessitates particular haste, and thereby lays bare the intensity of his love, unwittingly putting a weapon into the hands of his beloved. If his lover is smart, she'll postpone the answer.The moral: Haste delays the fruits of love. — Orhan Pamuk