Translations Hugh Quotes & Sayings

No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer. — Baba Kalyani

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. — Jane Austen

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword — George R R Martin

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life. — Anuj

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up. — Jim Butcher

At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the whites, the blacks and the yellow races ... More and more goods came into being, corresponding to each sect, race and class ... People began to realise how much blood had been spilt in the name of a petty, doubtful good, in the name of the struggle of this petty good against what is belied to be evil. Sometimes the very concept of good became a scourge, a greater evil than evil itself. — Vasily Grossman

Only the virtuous man jumps over his shadow. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel. — Francesca Annis

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. — John Wanamaker

I stuff because: I don't feel safe enough to confront this person. I don't have the energy or the time to get into a conflict right now. I don't know how to address the issue. I don't want to seem hypersensitive. I don't want to get rejected. I don't want to lose control. I don't want to make things worse, so I convince myself I can just let it go. — Lysa TerKeurst

The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments. — Stephen Kinzer

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. — Albert Camus

If we are honest, I think we have to admit that we will likely try to sabotage any movement toward true freedom. If we really knew what we were called to relinquish on this journey, our defenses would never allow us to take the first step. Sometimes the only way we can enter the deeper dimensions of the journey is by being unable to see where we're going. — Gerald G. May