Yourcenar Loeuvre Quotes & Sayings

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress. — John Calvin

Don't be lady. Be a legend. — Stevie Nicks

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash. — John Berger

It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise human power. This, as I think Martin Luther King understood, is the real point, the real gift to America, of the struggle of the black people. In accepting the humanity of the black race, the white people will not be giving accommodation to an alien people; it will be receiving into itself half of its own experience, vital and indispensable to it, which it has so far denied at great cost. — Wendell Berry

Be selfish sometimes. Love yourself. If you always put others before you, you will find yourself feeling beaten down by the world and that will make you bitter. Don't let the world make you bitter, not when you have such a beautiful soul. — Spencer Hoshino

Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations. — Wolfgang Puck

A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class, there were no right or wrong answers as long as you could find evidence to back up your opinion. — Kami Garcia

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal. — Ellen Bass

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed. — Ray Winstone

Most of us are better when things go better. — Malcolm Forbes

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious. — Carl Gustav Carus

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. — Clint Eastwood

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill

When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider. — Nelly Sachs