Voeux Pour Quotes & Sayings

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! — Robert Louis Stevenson

I pray to a God I don't really have faith in just so I feel like I have company. — Alex Adams

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that. — Madeleine L'Engle

I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something.
Sheriff Toots Burns. — Larry McMurtry

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. — Alphonse De Lamartine

When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did. — Lynsey Addario

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. — Richard Perle

Connor felt the burn of anger mingling with his guilt. He knew Caroline had been hurt, and he was truly sorry for it. If the barbs she was throwing had been directed at him alone, he would have taken them. But they weren't. "Caro," he said, lowering his voice as he leaned closer — Mira Lyn Kelly

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated. — David A. Cooper