Oliviane Quotes & Sayings

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday. — Kano Jigoro

She insisted, but he would not receive her. He was not even acting out of necessity: she meant nothing to him anymore. Death had rapidly broken the bonds whose enslavement he had been dreading for several weeks. When he tried to think of Oliviane, nothing presented itself to his mind's eye: the eyes of his imagination and of his vanity had closed. — Marcel Proust

How can one betray oneself to such a degree? What corruption greater even than power can lead us to thus deny the proof of pleasure, to hold in contempt that which we have loved? ... I could have written about chouquettes my whole life long; and my whole life long, I wrote against them. — Muriel Barbery

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen. — Eric Braeden

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive. — Oprah Winfrey

We're not spending the night looking for ourselves. — Cath Crowley

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan. — Armando Iannucci

After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought ... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system ... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them ... Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression. — Andrew Dickson White

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man? — Warren Farrell