Savonnerie Bruxelloise Quotes & Sayings

Nevertheless, despite all superficial continuity, a remarkable change has come about within the last seventy-five years. The change is nothing less than the substitution of paganism for Christianity as the dominant view of life. Seventy-five years ago, Western civilization, despite inconsistencies, was still predominantly Christian; today it is predominantly pagan. (1923) — J. Gresham Machen

So we have to recognize that species concepts are humanly produced categories which may or may not always work when compared with the reality of nature. — Chris Stringer

No."
"Why?"
"No one needs to know," I say.
"To know what?How long you've lasted?" Vick asks.
"To know anything about me," I say. — Ally Condie

Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.
But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator. — Jim Butcher

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier. — Bruce Sterling

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up. — Kelly Lynch

We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef. — Anne Heche

There is always somebody above you, even where you are there is somebody above you and above them... — Deyth Banger

We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves. — William Hazlitt

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you. — Sherry Stringfield

And then she poked him again. Not because he wasn't paying attention but because when she did it the first time she found she liked it. Mrs. Bunny might think she was getting away with this, but Mr. Bunny was silently counting the pokes to pay her back later. — Polly Horvath

It is said that he bagan to write in French because he was fascinated by two words from the French that did not have an equivalent in his native German: 'verger,' orchard and 'paume,' palm of the hand. — Susanne Petermann

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?'
'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you - you - and only you. Didn't you know? — Ethel M. Dell

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion. — Louise Hay