Optimisation Combinatoire Quotes & Sayings

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most. — Ann Brashares

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know himself in you. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The Founders' armor had resisted every attempt by others to force them open; the Senate had been designed as the "firm" body; it had become too firm - too firm to allow the reforms the Republic needed. Never had the dam been more firm than during the last decade, the decade since the conservative coalition had learned its strength. During that decade, despite the mandate of three presidential elections, it had stood across and blocked the rising demand for social justice, had stood so solidly that it seemed too strong ever to be breached. In January, 1949, when Lyndon Johnson arrived in it, it was still standing. — Robert A. Caro

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines. — Bill Vaughan

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ. — Brian Houston

The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena. — Odilon Redon

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride — Charleszetta Waddles

But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of us still seeking the things we've sought all along - shelter, food, love, greater meaning - " He shakes his head. "A quest that's immune to evolution. — Alyson Noel

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well. — Paul Weller

There is no ship now that can bear me hence — J.R.R. Tolkien

The unconquerable pang of despised love. — William Wordsworth