Plateaux Pour Quotes & Sayings

Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex — Margaret Atwood

There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal. — Harold Stassen

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don't know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. — Gerhard Richter

Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it. — Ronnie Wood

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we're ashamed of our bodies as to where it's a law to wear fabrics, we destroy natural civilizations for artificial ones, and despite being of the same species, we always look past that aspect and question, judge, hurt and kill each other over what makes us different. — Lauren Lola

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices. — Cheng Yi

humans were grotesque a lot of the time, but-just once in a while-there was
something about them that was marvelous, too" ("Lost Voices" by Sarah
Porter,109) — Sarah Porter

The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and this is the central theme of 'Grain Brain.' — David Perlmutter

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. — Alexander Wang

If you say that something is impossible, you take your place amongst the losers, may be not immediately, but definitely for the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A community is like the ones who govern it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother ... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV. — Niecy Nash

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom. — Ana Ortiz

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books — Geoffrey Dutton

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground. — Ben Carson