Tocquevilles Quotes & Sayings

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less. — Rosario Ferre

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics. — Paul Krugman

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. — Zora Neale Hurston

She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl. — Lorraine Heath

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. — George Bernard Shaw

Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one. — Jeanette Winterson

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie! — Kevin Hart

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. — Rabindranath Tagore

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis. — Samuel Alexander

I always wanted to film 'Biggest Loser' in Hawaii. We could call it, 'Come on I wanna weigh you.' — Caroline Rhea

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea ... of what to do. — Diana Vreeland

They have read your novel,' Woland said, 'and they said only one thing, that, unfortunately, it is not finished. So I wanted to show you your hero. He has been sitting here for about two thousand years, sleeping, but, when the moon is full, he is tormented, as you see, by insomnia. And it torments not only him, but his faithful guardian, the dog.

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it. The only thing that brave creature ever feared was thunderstorms. But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one who is loved. — Mikhail Bulgakov

I just wish we could hold on to that sense of wonder because sometimes we don't notice some of the most incredible things in the world. We walk by beautiful flowers and trees every day without looking at them. We rush through our day without even saying hi to most of the people we see. We take a lot for granted, and I think that's why some people say it's better to live each day as our last. That way we might start appreciating more things around us. — Ellen DeGeneres

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it. — Johnny Otis