Sylviane Fabre Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten! — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many. — Kevin Rudd

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. — John Flavel

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel. — Philip K. Dick

His hopeless challenge dauntless cried
Fingolfin there: 'Come, open wide,
dark king, you ghatsly brazen doors!
Come forth, whom earth and heaven abhors!
Come forth, O monstruous craven lord,
and fight with thine own hand and sword,
thou wielder of hosts of banded thralls,
thou tyrant leaguered with strong walls,
thou foe of Gods and elvish race!
I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face! — J.R.R. Tolkien

We were scholars long before colleges. — Nasir Jones

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough. — Talib Kweli

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence. — Sarah McLachlan

I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out.But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say. — Muhammad Ali

Did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the air? — Edgar Allan Poe

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it. — George Steiner

He (Jesus) cannot be distracted from his late-night prayer in Gethsemane. — Alex Early

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair. — Michelle Dockery

There is no greater threat to America than Islam. — William G. Boykin