Pouvoirs Des Quotes & Sayings

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of. — Abraham Lincoln

One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to. — Erich Fromm

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me. — Polly Bergen

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. — John Fletcher

Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death. — Vladimir Nabokov

Living a lifetime is experiment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me. — Rick Riordan

You know, there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to carefully examine the goals they've set for themselves. When they have to admit their limitations and look at their capibilities in a more realistic way. — Jenny Trout

The easiest definition is this: an addiction is something we can't stop doing. Among its symptoms are lethargy, a lack of ability to focus, a tremendous desire to maintain routine in our daily life, the inability to complete cycles of action, a lack of new experiences and emotional responses, and the persistent feeling that one day is the same as the next and the next. — Ellen Hopkins

The fundamental sanity of Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan. — Romila Thapar

The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn — Alan Garner

I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away. — Tommy Lee

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. — Thomas Keneally

They had been there. I had seen my mother's anxious face, desperate to catch my eye and give me a warm smile. I had tried to smile back, but I had not known how. That old curse again. How to smile. If I smiled too broadly it might look like triumphalism; if I smiled too weakly it might look like a feeble bid for sympathy. If I smiled somewhere in between it would, I knew, look, as always, like plain smugness. Somehow I managed to bare my teeth in a manner that expressed, I hope, sorrow, gratitude, determination, shame, remorse and resolve. — Stephen Fry