Nothomb Charles Quotes & Sayings

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. — Steven Pinker

Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in my books. Teachers put grades in my books. Love letters sent in envelopes I sell. Ledgers for accountants, pads for shopping lists, agendas for planning week. Everything in here important to life, and that make me happy, give honour to my life.'
The man delivered his little speech with such solemnity, such a grave sense of purpose and commitment, I confess that I felt moved. What kind of stationery store owner was this, I wondered, who expounded to his customers on the metaphysics of paper, who saw himself as serving an essential role in the myriad affairs of humanity? There was something comical about it, I suppose, but as I listened to him talk, it didn't occur to me to laugh. — Paul Auster

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God — John Calvin

The ceremony is over when there is no more water. — Emmi Itaranta

The best decisions you can ever make are the decisions that will guide you to enhance your gifts in order to create a better life for you and others. — Israelmore Ayivor

Keep on going, even when things look bleak. — Ed Catmull

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities. — Alexander Alekhine

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon. — Lionel Shriver

Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.
And leaving you (there arent words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,
So that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes
understanding
Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star
I was beginning to undertand poetry. — Maggie Stiefvater