Pleut Des Quotes & Sayings

The risk not taken is more dangerous than the risk taken. — Andy Dunn

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear. — John Keegan

On occasion when I am getting to know someone - when someone seeks to know me or, indeed, find in me the occasion for love - I am asked what my idea of love is, and I always founder. There are clearly those who have their ideas of love, who enter into their conversations, their letters, their initial encounters with an idea of love in mind. This is admirable in a way. And I am somewhat embarrassed by the fact that I have no answer, and that I cannot, in the moment of potential seduction, [have] an entrancing view of love to offer the one with whom I speak. ... One knows love somehow only when all one's ideas are destroyed, and this becoming unhinged from what one knows is the paradigmatic sign of love. — Judith Butler

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality. — Al Franken

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual. — Eric Shinseki

I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple. — John Sculley

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you. — Maria Rodale

There is but halting for the wearied foot;
The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed;
One stronger far than reason mastered her.
It is not reason makes faith hard, but life. — Jean Ingelow

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me. — Todd Barry

Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off ... I'm reading everybody's Twitter. — Randee Heller

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame.
Define your success as a person of values.
Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you. — Raphael Zernoff

The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn. — Dr. Seuss

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. — Rupert Penry-Jones