Veille Sur Quotes & Sayings

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent. — William Wordsworth

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her. — Markus Zusak

These modern so-called ministers of God speak all things nice. . . . There is not any hell and there is not any devil and there is not any judgment of God. . . . In our enlightened and sophisticated day — David Jeremiah

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else. — Anthony Weston

The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination. — Haruki Murakami

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. — John Taylor Gatto

If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower ... The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land ... — Nikola Tesla

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message. — Radhanath Swami

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. — Robert A. Heinlein

You women are all the same, if bed's all right,
You think everything else can go to the wind.
But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights,
Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose. — Euripides

Ware the man who fakes a limp. — Stephen King

Love is something so relevant, so powerful and encompassing, yet we all have our own interpretation of what it is. Some versions are watered down, some are based on magical fairytales we hear as a child, and some are developed by watching those around us as we were growing up. No matter what the specifics, love has become a subjective term, verb and noun. — Camille Lucy

I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly. — Kevin Kwan

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.
He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.
He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart. — Craig Groeschel

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe