Retraites Populaires Quotes & Sayings

I took out my brush and got to brushing the waves on the back of my head. — Kiese Laymon

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them. — Edwin Land

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly. — David Bowie

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony De Mello

The Israeli court psychiatrist who examined Eichmann found him a "completely normal man, more normal, at any rate, than I am after examining him," the implication being that the coexistence of normality and bottomless cruelty explodes our ordinary conceptions and present the true enigma of the trial. — Hannah Arendt

For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality ... — Adrian Carton De Wiart

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. — Jhumpa Lahiri

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless. — Tara West