Saisis Des Quotes & Sayings

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser. — Kurt Browning

Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing — Edith Wharton

She felt as though her nerves were strings being strained tighter and tighter on some sort of screwing peg. She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness. Moments of doubt were continually coming upon her, when she was uncertain whether the train were going forwards or backwards, or were standing still altogether; whether it were Annushka at her side or a stranger. "What's that on the arm of the chair, a fur cloak or some beast? And what am I myself? Myself or some other woman?" She was afraid of giving way to this delirium. But something drew her towards it, and she could yield to it or resist it at will. — Leo Tolstoy

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people. — Mark Steyn

Action is thought tempered by illusion. — Elbert Hubbard

Isn't the whole point of things - beautiful things - that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another? — Donna Tartt

And I really, genuinely believe that if you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right. — Charles Duhigg

During disasters young children usually take their cues from their parents. As long as their caregivers remain calm and responsive to their needs, they often survive terrible incidents without serious psychological scars. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap - it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right - and — Joseph Heller

Being on the edge is always worse than going through — Joseph Brown

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. — Jane Gardam

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. — Lewis Black

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. — Kurt Vonnegut