Sovereigntist Quebec Quotes & Sayings

There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind
what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value systems and it is true of their creativity. It is true of their corporate actions, such as political decisions, and it is true of their personal lives. The results of their thought-world flow through their fingers or from their tongues into the external world. — Francis A. Schaeffer

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt. — Jerome K. Jerome

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose. — Rick Warren

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. — Mercedes McCambridge

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland. — Ian Rankin

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. — Nelson Mandela

It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect. — Frederick Lenz

He couldn't concentrate on anything while her incredible bottom led him up those stairs like the Pied Piper of tempting asses. — Nina Bangs

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid

One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out. — Louisa Hall

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature. — Oscar Wilde

I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them. — Ana Gasteyer

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general. — Napoleon Bonaparte

His casual, almost flippant, mention of it took her by surprise and made her feel cool and tart, like tasting lime for the first time. — Sarah Addison Allen

I ascend from darkness
And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;
My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket,
And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair. — Conrad Aiken