Thermidor Recipe Quotes & Sayings

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices. — Jeff Bezos

People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present. — Tim I. Gurung

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together. — Jack Zipes

The values and assumptions of that household I took in without knowing when or how it happened, and I have them to this day: The pleasure in sharing pleasure. The belief that is is only proper to help lame dogs to get over stiles and young men to put one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. An impatient disregard for small sums of money. The belief that it is a sin against Nature to put sugar in one's tea. The preference for being home over being anywhere else. The belief that generous impulses should be acted on, whether you can afford to do this or not. The trust in premonitions and the knowledge of what is in wrapped packages. The willingness to go to any amount of trouble to make yourself comfortable. The tendency to take refuge in absolutes. The belief that you don't have to apologize for tears; that consoling words should never be withheld; that what somebody wants very much they should, if possible, have. — William Maxwell

One should share their dreams with others right away in the morning. One can use my Lightning Dreamwork process. First, the person shares the dream without being interrupted. Then each person shares their thoughts about the dream by saying, "If it were my dream," not presuming to tell the person what the dream means in an objective way. Lastly, the dreamer is helped to make an action plan for embodying the energy and guidance from the dream. — Robert Moss

I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn't exist, so I didn't leave. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. — Edward T. Hall

Take love to people and teach them to abide by the principles of God — Sunday Adelaja

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. — Twyla Tharp

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for? — H.M. Forester

When it's right, it's right. — Jane Green

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design. — Garth Nix

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty. — Albert Camus