Steel Magnolias Ouiser Boudreaux Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine. — Leo Tolstoy

Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend. — A.J. Darkholme

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. — Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes, she wondered if what she craved even existed. A man who was strong inside and out. A man who knew the world wasn't fair, and knew he had to take responsibility for his part in it. A man who knew there was more to sex than simply the act and that there was more to a woman than breasts and thighs and what lay beyond. A man who accepted the fact that a woman might need adventure as well. That was what she craved. A man she could trust enough not just to give in to her desires with, but to accept her need to live. A man who, even if he wasn't there forever, was at least there long enough to care about fulfilling not just the physical desires, but the adventurous ones as well. — Lora Leigh

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'. — Kenneth G. Wilson

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. — W. L. George

Twilight is an insistent and infinite invitation to the wise to contemplate in peace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough. — Karine Vanasse

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