Loussert Quotes & Sayings

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. — Sandra Cisneros

Like King Lewis of Hungary, who was immaturely born, came of age too soon and was immaturely married, my age is out of joint with my phenomenal destiny. — Dorothy Dunnett

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core. — James Howard Kunstler

Her dark eyes looked as if they found repose there, so quietly did they rest on the face of the old man, — George MacDonald

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. — Gustav Mahler

My mother has few stories to tell about these times. What I remember from them is the odd look I would sometimes catch in her eyes. It struck me, for the first time in my life, that my mother might be afraid of me. I could not even reassure her, because I was only dimly aware of the nature of her distress, but there must have been something going on in me that was beyond her: at any time I might open my mouth and out would come a language she had never heard before. I had become a visitant from outer space, a time-traveller come back from the future, bearing news of a great disaster. — Margaret Atwood

I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues. — Deepak Chopra