Val Riane De Villeneuve Quotes & Sayings

She tried to compose herself then, with several deep breaths. I gave her as long as she needed, all the while mentally designing my tombstone. R.I.P, Captain Abraham R. Griswold. He was completely useless and made girls cry. — Lia Habel

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics. — Pankaj Mishra

You just want me to hold you until you fall asleep?"
I didn't answer.
He shifted to look straight into my eyes. "I should say no to prove a point," he said, his eyebrows pulling together. "But I would hate myself later if I said no and you never asked me again. — Jamie McGuire

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious. — George Eliot

I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such as a fondness for county cricket or collecting stamps or drinking cocoa. Such things, I grant you, have nothing of virtue in them; but there is a sort of innocence and humility and self-forgetfulness about them which I distrust. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring twopence what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore-armed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the "best" people, the "right" food, the "important" books. — C.S. Lewis

Faced by guilelessness, however, we grow and expand. We find courage and friendship beside those who believe in us. — Paulo Coelho

Yes, Tony, you are mine and nobody else's. — Aleatha Romig

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising. — Karl Lagerfeld

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses. — Che Guevara

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. — Yogi Berra

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can. — Sam Altman

Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern. — Jonathan Powell

I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive. — Peace Pilgrim