Taliesyn Design Quotes & Sayings

Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am separated by a thousand obstacles, I dream of falling back on Laetitia: if I could manage to confine myself to the lively pleasures the other affords me, without contaminating them, mortifying them by the anxiety which serves as their hinge? If I could take an anthological view of the amorous relation? If I were to understand, initially, that a great preoccupation does not include moments of pure pleasure, and then, if I managed systematically to forget the zones of alarm which separate these moments of pleasure? If I could be dazed, inconsistent? — Roland Barthes

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. — Tony Wilson

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all. — Chris Daughtry

Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths. The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too. — Joseph M. Marshall III

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. — Robert Breault

I am the minister in The Ministry of Scarcity, but I'm not ordained because they were out of the paper they use to print the certificates on. Still, the title alone carries some weight (2.2 pounds). — Jarod Kintz

We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business. — Edward Pearson Pressey

Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power. — James Tiptree Jr.