Sopal Prix Quotes & Sayings

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new. — Tony DiTerlizzi

One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion. — Erlend Loe

Negative thinking is based on complexes — Sunday Adelaja

Amazingly similar in the execution. A bow pulled, an arrow shot. Entirely different in the aftermath. I killed a boy whose name I don't even know. Somewhere his family is weeping for him. His friends call for my blood. Maybe he had a girlfriend who really believed he would come back ... — Suzanne Collins

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. — K.d. Lang

Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering. — Dan Mager

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. — Bram Stoker

...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises."
~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower — Josephine Baker

What are you thinking about? What you focus on right now will tend to come into your life a little later. Here's your reminder to change your mind. — Joe Vitale

But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize that the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today. — Sonia Sotomayor

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson