Trocadero Quotes & Sayings

We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, all the while blaming them on someone else. — Russell Willingham

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
[Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres. — Henry Adams

Be different.. be yourself. — Vikrmn

Look for the possibilities... rather than... locking doors too soon that might in time have opened. — Aleksandra Layland

True power is not in how one thinks," he said. "It's in how one loves. — B.C. Chase

Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach. — Blaise Pascal

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept. — Nan Hayworth

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. — David Hume

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think "I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me." No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing." He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely. — Timothy Keller

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero. — Rita Hayworth

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity. — Jordin Sparks

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. — Sylvia Plath

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity. — Tupac Shakur

Faith is catching a glimpse of a beacon piercing the fog of life and walking toward it, never knowing if heading in the right direction, but pressing onward. — Tom Hallman Jr.