Sentirme Libre Quotes & Sayings

You see, even the inhuman ones were not always inhuman. This was a lesson that I would learn again and again - how completely unpredictable individuals could be when it came to personal morality. — Edith Hahn Beer

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant — Thomas Carlyle

that was reality, and when all of this was untangled she would have to sit down and have a good hard look at that fact. — Elizabeth Bonesteel

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White

You can waste a whole lifetime
Trying to be
What you think is expected of you
But youll never be free — Chris Rea

I've heard that lawyers' children, on seeing their parents in court in the
heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess. This was not true of Jem and me. We acquired no traumas from watching our father win or lose. I'm sorry that I can't provide any drama in this respect; if I did, it would not be true. We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father. I never heard Atticus raise his voice in my life, except to a deaf witness. — Harper Lee

way, he had hoped he would not. His life would — Lois Lowry

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream. — George Gordon Byron

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little. — Kenneth Koch