Valesca Guerrand Hermes Quotes & Sayings

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other ... .
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
— Martin Buber

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;
there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action. — Walter Scott

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text, — Henry James

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it. — Gene Wolfe

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius

He loved his entire family, including his mother, but growing up with them had taught him that not every intimate detail needed to be shared. He hadn't wanted to know that his parents had enjoyed a new sexual technique the night before or that his sisters had their periods. He hadn't wanted to talk about his own sexual development or, back when he'd been a teenager, have his mother ask him, over breakfast, if he'd masturbated yet that day. — Susan Mallery

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me. — Abraham Flexner

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine

The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves
it was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. — Cora Carmack

Did you write the words, or the lyrics? — Bruce Forsyth

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle! — Fred Rogers

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others. — Erich Fromm

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end. — Ishmael Beah

Human passions against eternal laws
that is the everlasting conflict. — Rose Macaulay

People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black. — Bill Maher