Puissance 4 Quotes & Sayings

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip. — Mark Twain

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union. — Tom Clancy

When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture. — Andrew Matthews

Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding. — Sarah J. Maas

Those who think life is money, chase it. But those who think life is sharing live to give. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most important thing in this life, Master Oklahoma used to say at the end of each session, is to have a destiny. — Valeria Luiselli

Therefore, since I could count on no continuity of sapient will to carry me through, indeed since all that was certain was that I must suffer repeated loss of same in order to maintain my body's vitality, my only course was to accomplish with what I hoped was the greater puissance of conscious craft what I had already once barely managed to achieve by accident of fate.

Which was to use these periods of conscious lucidity to engrave a mantric tropism upon the presentient levels of my mind with perpetual chanting repetition and diligent meditation, so that even when reason and conscious will had once more fled, my Bloomenkind self would, during periods of enforced floral nirvana, be programmed to follow the yellow, to follow the sun that sooner or later must rise during a cycle of such meditations into its percept sphere.

"Follow the sun, follow the yellow, follow the Yellow Brick Road ... — Norman Spinrad

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit. — Maria Montessori

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore."
"I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun. — Melina Marchetta

If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love. — Debasish Mridha

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art. — Edward J. Fraughton

If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual. — Frederick Lenz

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. — Paulo Coelho

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. — Jeff Greenfield

In any case, the one man paved the way for the deeds of the other, in a sense foreshadowed and even legitimized by them. — Albert Camus

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous. — Ben Stiller