Sommaire Quotes & Sayings

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm addicted to creating and writing. — Bret Michaels

When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary. — Stephen Covey

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it. — Shannon A. Thompson

Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car. — Sebastian Faulks

What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?
Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting? — Heidi R. Kling

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? — Walker Percy

Thought - he told himself quietly - is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by which one makes a choice. No choice was left to him. Thought sets one's purpose and the way to reach it. In the matter of his life being torn piece by piece out of him, he was to have no voice, no purpose, no way, no defense. — Ayn Rand

Let your best be for your friend ... — Khalil Gibran

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak? — Jeff Deck

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi

The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents. — Sam Kean

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen. — Brett Davern