Poumons Quotes & Sayings

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else. — Anne Roiphe

This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils. — Annie Besant

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life. — Gary Condit

Fearing the night won't keep the sun from setting. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you. — Peter Sarnak

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home. — John Henry Jowett

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it. — Chris Christie

Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. — Thomas Hardy

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. — Peter Stone

Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival. — Eraldo Banovac

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media. — Amy Jo Martin

Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs. — Peter Hessler