Philippe Alain Michaud Quotes & Sayings

Every night when I'm sure everyone is asleep, I sit on my bed and laugh maniacally. — Rainbow Rowell

Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair. — E. M. Forster

People are drawn to you because you make them feel happy; I understand that. But wouldn't it be nice to have people flock to you wishing for your happiness? — Richelle E. Goodrich

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps. — Glenn Turner

Fuck, Ranger said.
Ranger didn't often curse and he rarely raised his voice. The fuck has been entirely conversational. Like he was now midly inconvenienced. He put his Bates boot to the door and the door popped open.. — Janet Evanovich

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family. — Chuck Grassley

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore

Religion mattered at a deep level, which must help to explain why none of these people went over to Islam; but in most cases it did not direct their lives, nor did it prevent some of them from cultivating their connection with a powerful relative who was a Muslim convert. Whilst the fact that they were Catholics from one of Christendom's frontier zones may have given them an enhanced sense of their Catholicism, the fact that they were Albanians, connected by language, blood and history to Ottoman subjects and Ottoman territory, gave them an ability to see things also from something more like an Ottoman perspective — Noel Malcolm

Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must ... [be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards ... and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse ... — Friedrich Hayek

He wore Armani suits and drove a Jaguar, but finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning. The very fact that he existed in this world would eventually be forgotten. 'Such a shame, he was so young,' people might say. Or they might not. — Haruki Murakami

Einstein ... even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living. — Orhan Pamuk

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. — Diablo Cody

By associating votive offerings with sacred images, the Catholic Church, it its wisdom, had left its formerly pagan flock a legitimate outlet for the inveterate impulse to associate oneself, or one's own effigy, with the Divine as expressed in the palpable form of the human image. — Aby Warburg

You're cute, but..."
He steps away from me, and I can breathe again. "Cute?" he spits. "For centuries women have wanted me, desired me. Royals requested me by name, and you think I am cute? — Jennifer Harlow

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? — Anne Rice

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done. — Jason Isbell