Paul Tournier Quotes

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Tournier

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• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Mature
  • Immature

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Worst
  • Survive
  • Through

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I'm learning every day.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Day
  • Learning
  • Everyday

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Kind
  • Nothing
  • Ever

• The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time

• In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Dog
  • Door
  • Spanish

• Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Faith

• All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Failure

• Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Guy

• People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • People
  • Wife
  • Dope

• I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.

  

  Max von Essen
  • School
  • Summer

• Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

  

  Marco Arment
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Understanding

• I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • World
  • Listening

• The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Hierarchy
  • Human Needs
  • Rungs

• The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

  

  Paul Tournier