Petit Clair Quotes & Sayings

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert ... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. — Eustace Conway

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists? — Alan Bennett

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that. — Frank Thomas

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best. — Homer

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You can't use an old map to explore a new world. — Albert Einstein

Intrapreneurs consider them-selves on a mission to help society, to give it what it needs and wants, to truly serve others and improve themselves. Like all producers, they believe in a deep accountability, refuse to assign blame, don't believe in failure, and give their heart and sould to truly serve the customer and benefit society. — Oliver DeMille

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done. — Joe Klein