Restez A La Quotes & Sayings

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ... — Miriam Toews

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. — Christopher Hitchens

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery. — C.S. Lewis

out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. They bow to me and then light the cigarettes. Now red points glow in every face. They comfort me; it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace. The — Erich Maria Remarque

Perhaps the most powerful Tollean insight into the ego was that it is obsessed with the past and the future, at the expense of the present. We "live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation," he wrote. We wax nostalgic for prior events during which we were doubtless ruminating or projecting. We cast forward to future events during which we will certainly be fantasizing. But as Tolle pointed out, it is, quite literally, always Now. (He liked to capitalize the word.) The present moment is all we've got. We experienced everything in our past through the present moment, and we will experience everything in the future the same way. — Dan Harris

Another characteristic of God's Spirit is that, while enlightening us and impelling us to act, he imprints our souls with a deep sense of humility. He makes us do good in such a way that we are happy to do it, but without any presumptuousness, self-satisfaction, or vanity. We see quite clearly that the good that we do does not come from ourselves but from God. — Jacques Philippe

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce. — David Steinberg

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. — Edmund Hillary

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific. — Phil Klay

I think of the hundreds of lights dancing across the night sky. "I knew you were watching. I know it sounds stupid, but I felt you with me, and then when you sent that letter describing that night ... " I drop off, unable to find the right words to explain the emotion. — Katie McGarry

You younger siblings know what I'm talking about - we're the glue and they're the glitter, right? — Julia London

If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson