Valeurs Actuelles Quotes & Sayings

And did you rise to what the occasion demanded ?
I rose so high, I left my body. — Marion Coutts

I like to think of the figures I make as companions for a personal journey. I try to fill each one with healing energy that responds to the person who owns it, and conversely, I hope that the person who owns it will respond with a true heart connection. I feel that my work is a sign post to the half forgotten world that we all carry inside of us. When people look at my work, I want them to think "Oh, now I remember." If they do that then I know that they have been successful. — Wendy Froud

Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all? — Rae Carson

As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, "Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an explorer, or a historian can turn an unquestioned norm ('That's the way it's done') into an explicit observation ('That's what our tribe happens to do now')." This is the point that Herodotus was making when he told the story of the Greeks and the Indians. — Paul Bloom

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice. — Laura Ruby

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me?
If not this way, how? If not now, when? — Primo Levi