Lobservateur Francais Quotes & Sayings

Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice. — Chila Woychik

If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character. Is he giving up too easily? Has she been taking it too long? Are there too many scenes where he's thinking and not doing? - James Scott Bell — Anonymous

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. — Alan Cranston

In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away. — Quentin Crisp

Acknowledging the interpreted status of the gospel should translate into a certain humility in our public theology. It should not, however, translate into skepticism about the truth of the Christian confession. If the interpretive status of the gospel rattles our confidence in its truth, this indicates that we remain haunted by the modern desire for objective certainty. But our confidence rests not on objectivity but rather on the convictional power of the Holy Spirit (which isn't exactly objective). [pg. 51] — James K.A. Smith

The longer Cersei waits, the angrier she'll become, and anger makes her stupid. I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning. — George R R Martin

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. — Horatius Bonar

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife. — Robin Wright

And he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He — Joseph Heller

The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room for discussion or negotiation when it comes to an ISIS or an Al Qaeda militant. They don't want anything concrete. And if you want nothing that's measurable or concrete, there is nothing to talk about. You must be destroyed. — Reza Aslan

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. — Alexander Pope

She would have to take this as a lesson for future; she would never get drunk and unknowingly plot world domination with her best friends ever again. — Beth Ashworth

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power. — Parker Palmer