Michel Maffesoli Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. — Martin Luther

The pressure ... It's not real unless you let it be real. — Cat Zingano

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant. — Brene Brown

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. — Paul Feig

While the changes that are necessary are actually simple, they're painful, and require courage and sacrifice. Living standards will decline in real terms. Citizens will have to save more and consume less. Working lives with lengthen. For many, retirement will be revert to being a luxury. Taxes and charges for government services will rise to match the cost of providing them. There has to be greater emphasis on the real economy - the creation and sale of goods and services. Financial institutions need to return to their actual role of supporting economic activity. — Satyajit Das

But my high total and my so-called "legend" have much to do with the fact that I was in the shit a lot. In other words, I had more opportunities than most. — Anonymous

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell

Just your smile can touch the moon. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school ... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast. — Barry Zito

The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires. — Jeffery Deaver

And I am wrong more often than I am writing. And even then, I am often wrong. — Andrea Gibson