Verlaine Mon Quotes & Sayings

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes. — Dylan Penn

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. — Paul Verlaine

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. — Douglas Adams

Believe and you shall receive. — Joan M. Blake

Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead. — Martin Bucer

Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. — Chris Powell

The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid. — Paul Collier

History is neither written nor made without love or hate. — Theodor Mommsen

You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile. — Eric J. Martindale

Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence. — Elif Safak

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by. — A.A. Milne

Wise, spiritual faith - the kind I'm advocating - is a commitment of trust based on solid, though incomplete, evidence that we're believing in the right things and moving in the best direction. — Mark Mittelberg