Stendhal The Red Quotes & Sayings

We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong. — Caryl Churchill

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Florence had the Alberti fighting for freedom, but never had real Jacobins. It experienced the Viva Maria insurrections, but never really witnessed strong extremist passions. Using the comparison of the colours universally celebrated by Stendhal, we can say that the Florentine red rather resembled a pink and that the black looked more like a grey. — Franco Cardini

Pity arises from meeting pain with fear. Compassion comes when you meet it with love. — Stephen Levine

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. — Pope John Paul II

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant. — Barbara Damrosch