Monnier And Co Quotes & Sayings

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship. — Adrienne Monnier

What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? — Steven D. Levitt

People see space as a place where you go and cooperate. — Ellen Stofan

Every time Mulder smiles, people say, 'God, it was great to see you smile. Mulder never smiles.' I say, 'Mulder smiles a whole lot. He smiles at least once a show.' People get these ideas in their heads and they're impossible to shake. But, to be honest with you, Mulder is every bit as vulnerable and quirky as Ally McBeal. I think Mulder has pretty good legs, too. — David Duchovny

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering. — Adrienne Monnier

There are limits to monetary policy. — Ben Bernanke

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. — Adrienne Monnier

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness. — Adrienne Monnier

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed. — Adrienne Monnier

In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible. — Adrienne Monnier

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. — Robert Gottlieb

I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer. — Agatha Christie

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart. — William Gurnall

I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time. — Nicholas Young

I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble. — Adrienne Monnier

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. — Adrienne Monnier

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish. — Yanni

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living. — Adrienne Monnier

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable. — T. Harv Eker

Teaching people a large number of sword techniques254 is turning the way into a business of selling goods, making beginners believe that there is something profound in their training by impressing them with a variety of techniques. This attitude toward strategy must be avoided, because thinking that there is a variety of ways of cutting a man down is evidence of a disturbed mind. In the world, different ways of cutting a man down do not exist. — Miyamoto Musashi

For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do. — Adrienne Monnier

In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs. — Robert Benchley

Truth is within ourselves. — Robert Browning

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier

One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense. — Adrienne Monnier