Salabert Editions Quotes & Sayings

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point , but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. — Sri Aurobindo

My disbelief paralyzes me temporarily as I stare at the sight of my arm vanishing into an implausibly small gap between the fallen boulder and the canyon wall. Within moments, my nervous system's pain response overcomes the initial shock. Good Christ, my hand. The flaring agony throws me into a panic, I grimace and growl a sharp "Fuck!" My mind commands my body, "Get your hand out of there!" I yank my arm three times in a naive attempt to pull it out.
But I'm stuck. — Aron Ralston

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man. — Roger Kahn

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there. — Imelda Marcos

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it. — Anne Fletcher

Everything is important- that success is in the details. — Steve Jobs

NO PDA,school rules. And besides she's my partner dickhead. said Alex. — Simone Elkeles

Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out. — Jenny Downham

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against. — Chris Hedges

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us? — Sara Sheridan

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy. — Pyreglide

Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that shell I lived and grew and planned, until there emerged a way to pull all the loose threads of my life together. — A.R. Cecil

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create:
a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure. — Ed Ayres

Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug
you shrug away the warm kiss — Jack Kerouac