Prevost Quotes & Sayings

In this era of global capital triumphant, to keep responsibility alive in the reading and teaching of the textual is at first sight impractical. It is, however, the right of the textual to be so responsible, responsive, answerable. The "planet" is, here, as perhaps always, a catachresis for inscribing collective responsibility as right. Its alterity, determining experience, is mysterious and discontinuous - an experience of the impossible. It is such collectivities that must be opened up with the question "How many are we?" when cultural origin is detranscendentalized into fiction - the toughest task in the diaspora. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America. — John Conyers

It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Regarding alien beings and UFO sightings,
They're less about 'where' or 'when' to find,
more about 'how' or using 'what' to identify. — Toba Beta

One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which now divert you from better pursuits! — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. — Horace

On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand - a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada. — Pierre Berton

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you. — Aziz Ansari

Lying gets all the recompenses, then, while despair and loneliness are the rewards of constancy and fidelity. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion! — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons — Audrey Truschke

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts. — Mary E. Pearson

Far more demoralizing to Americans than British operations in New England was their invasion of the Chesapeake. In 1814 London officials ordered Major General Robert Ross "to effect a diversion on the coasts of the United States of America in favor of the army employed in the defence of Upper and Lower Canada." At the same time, Prevost, who was angry over the burning of Dover and other depredations in Upper Canada, asked Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane to "assist in inflicting that measure of retaliation which shall deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages."104 The British had successfully targeted the Chesapeake in 1813, and both Ross and Cochrane regarded it the best place to achieve their goals in 1814. The bay's extensive shoreline remained exposed, and the region's two most important cities - Washington and Baltimore - offered inviting targets. — Donald R. Hickey

De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic. — Steve Volk

Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go. — Elliot Kay

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models. — Charlie Munger

There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

I can only be me. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes. — John Irving

If we have too many worries, fears, and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practice letting go. — Thich Nhat Hanh

So if we're all quarks and electrons ... " he begins.
What?"
We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together."
Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time. — Scarlett Thomas