Salloum Emile Quotes & Sayings

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get. — James C. Collins

Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams. — Matt Fitzgerald

This town is like Gone with the Wind on mescaline!" From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. — John Berendt

In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad. — Aung San Suu Kyi

To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them. — Frederick Douglass

Looking back, none of this would have happened if I'd brought lip gloss the night of the Homecoming Dance. — Rachel Hawkins

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. — Tom Hanks

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. — Jock Sturges

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run — Herman Melville

Take the case of prostitutes, a group more or less available every night. As a young man, Proust had been a compulsive masturbator, so compulsive that his father had urged him to go to a brothel, to take his mind off what the nineteenth century considered to be a highly dangerous pastime. In a candid letter to his grandfather, sixteen-year-old Marcel described how the visit had gone: I so badly needed to see a woman in order to stop my bad habits of masturbating that papa gave me 10 francs to go to the brothel. But, 1st in my excitement, I broke the chamber pot, 3 francs, 2nd in this same excitement, I wasn't able to have sex. So now I'm back to square one, constantly waiting for another 10 francs to empty myself and for 3 more francs for that pot. — Alain De Botton

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate. — John Milton

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. — Christopher Smart

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person. — Chris Wooding

A little lip gloss goes a long way. — Erin Dionne