Printemps Haussmann Quotes & Sayings

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk. — Laurence J. Peter

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming. — Robin Sharma

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie Du Chatelet

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. — George Santayana

Women giving birth seemed very often to lose any sense of fear or misgiving ... exhibiting an absorption that amounted to indifference-simply because they had no attention to spare for anything beyond the universe bounded by their bellies. — Diana Gabaldon

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it. — Georg Buchner

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth. — Chanakya