Plateaux Eveil Quotes & Sayings

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is. — George Eliot

It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. — Halsey

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators. — Dale Spender

There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over.

"There is," said Father Brown dryly, "and that is the real difference between human charity and Christian charity. You must forgive me if I was not altogether crushed by your contempt for my uncharitableness today; or by the lectures you read me about pardon for every sinner. For it seems to me that you only pardon the sins that you don't really think sinful. You only forgive criminals when they commit what you don't regard as crimes, but rather as conventions. So you tolerate a conventional duel, just as you tolerate a conventional divorce. You forgive because there isn't anything to be forgiven. — G.K. Chesterton

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today. — George Carlin

Throughout the records of the Gospels, I saw how Jesus didn't treat women any differently than men, and I liked that. — Sarah Bessey

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Nicholas Kristof