Parisiens Ile Quotes & Sayings

Work - the ultimate badge of health. — Ian McEwan

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me. — Bill Bryson

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. — Arthur Lydiard

To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could. — Gene Luen Yang

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis. — Alex Berenson

Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution. — Patch Adams

You could love many people in your life. Maybe love didn't die even when a person did, but that didn't mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart. — Caroline Leavitt

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! — Madame De Stael

He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees.
Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow
by fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten
Your brain to bubble cool,-
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul. — Emily Dickinson

Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice? — George Washington

In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men. — Scott Raab

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. — Thomas Jefferson

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. — Gustav Stickley