Louys Quotes & Sayings

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? — Mark Poster

Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.' — Stewart Udall

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty. — Anne M. Mulcahy

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain. — Ann Brashares

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. — Hugh Hopper

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature. — Bernie Mac

I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns. — Cora Carmack

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure
chemically pure, I mean, ... not morally. — Aldous Huxley

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note. — Hank Stram

The entirety of alters (or parts) which co-exist inside one physical body is known as a System. — A.T.W.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As the trickle of foreign videos turned into a flood, North Korean police became alarmed and came up with new tactics to arrest people who watched them. They cut electricity to specific apartment blocks and then raided every apartment to see what tapes and disks were stuck inside the players. — Anonymous