Parfait Bras Quotes & Sayings

Everything in the room seemed turned away from me in sullen resistance, averthing itself from my unwelcome return. — John Banville

They lose the day in waiting for the night, and the night in fearing the dawn. — Seneca.

Except this "if we're meant to meet, we'll meet" attitude isn't truly relaxed. So we're not going to commend you for it. This attitude is more passive than relaxed. A passivity born of entitlement. You are owed a soul mate; this has been promised to you since birth. Everybody knows that. So why worry? — Augusten Burroughs

Tell the truth, but tell it slant. — Emily Dickinson

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. — Barbara Deming

So whatever you want to do, just do it ... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. — Gloria Steinem

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston. — Eliza Dushku

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. — Clyde Tombaugh

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand. — Diet Eman

Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. — John Irving

After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity. — Steven Pinker

I think success might be one of the most overused words in the western world, and maybe if we changed success for happiness we would be better off, because when you get this 'success' will it make you happier? Are we chasing money, fame, power, ego, success, or are we chasing happiness, freedom and the feeling of being content? — Evan Sutter