Transposed Fistula Quotes & Sayings

They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for there are people - and this had been my case since youth - for whom all the things that have a fixed value, assessable by others, fortune, success, high positions, do not count; what they must have is phantoms. They sacrifice all the rest, devote all their efforts, make everything else subservient to the pursuit of some phantom. But this soon fades away; then they run after another only to return later on to the first. — Marcel Proust

I have always thought that if I had been allowed to read history more constantly, instead of losing my time in studies for which I had no aptness, I might ave made some figure in the world — Louis De Rouvroy Saint-Simon

I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator. That is how I am helping people. — John Assaraf

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. — Benjamin Disraeli

If anyone should be kind, understanding, accepting, loving to their fellow outcasts, it's you. All of you. You are the guardians of the secrets of the universe, beloved of worlds most would never dream of, much less see. . . can't you see where you owe it to yourselves to be kind? — Seanan McGuire

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself. — Vladimir Guerrero