Sibylline Meynet Quotes & Sayings

The search for happiness is one of the few actions in which human beings absolutely agree upon, though they may not agree on what it implies or how to find it. This quest for satisfaction emphasizes the creation of physical and mental boundaries that we would like to "privatize" for our welfare and security, trying to keep them unchanged in appearance and actions. That quest is ultimately insatiable and eventually results in more suffering and dissatisfaction — Ivan Figueroa-Otero

It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we want to do in the class. — Joan Countryman

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more. — Francis Atterbury

I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes
epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers in arms. Whether it was but recently (for time is nothing), or at the beginning of the world, I sent you out to war. I sat in the darkness, where there is not any created thing, and to you I was only a voice commanding valour and an unnatural virtue. You heard the voice in the dark, and you never heard it again. The sun in heaven denied it, the earth and sky denied it, all human wisdom denied it. And when I met you in the daylight I denied it myself ... But you were men. You did not forget your secret honour, though the whole cosmos turned an engine of torture to tear it out of you. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet. — Mario Balotelli

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. — Tim Cook

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather. — Daniel Suarez

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts. — Masanobu Fukuoka

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it. — Francois Truffaut

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. — Blaise Pascal

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become. — Wayne Muller

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words. — Billy Graham