Plaisanterie Citation Quotes & Sayings

To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on. — Kingsley Amis

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish. — Herman Edwards

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved. — Gilbert Arenas

What a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale. — Gene Wolfe

How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair
No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be. — Joyce Meyer

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently. — Chris Hedges

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation. — Gwen Ifill

God, you'd think that great corners in life should come with a warning sign at the side of the proverbial road, a little yellow number that announced which direction you were going to go in, and maybe offered a "reduce speed" kind of advice. — J.R. Ward

It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk. — Anne Sexton

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right. — Theodore Dalrymple

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? — D.H. Lawrence

We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents." — Federico Pena